Written answers
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Department of Foreign Affairs
Departmental Advertising
10:00 pm
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 326: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising campaigns in the first six months of 2009 to promote policies or programmes being implemented by those agencies or by his Department; the details of the campaign or relevant programme; the cost of advertising in publications, broadcast advertising, on-line advertising, outdoor advertising and other forms of advertising and consultancy or production costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24972/09]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 327: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has carried out, during the first six months of 2009, advertising campaigns to promote any policies or programmes being implemented by his Department; the name of the campaign or relevant programme; the total cost of advertising in publications, broadcast advertising, outdoor advertising and consultancy or production costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24987/09]
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 326 and 327 together.
Advertising undertaken by my Department in Ireland typically includes advisory notices on public opening hours over holiday periods, changes in passport application procedures and fees, job vacancy advertisements, phone book information, and public information notices relating to Ireland's official aid programme.
The following table outlines the advertising campaigns carried out in the first six months of 2009 to promote policies or programmes being implemented by my Department. The figures provided include VAT and cover all bodies that operate under the remit of my Department. Vote 28 (Foreign Affairs)
| Advertising | Costs | Design and print costs |
| Advertisements with local Irish ethnic newspapers in Britain to promote awareness of the Emigrant Support Programme and outline the programme's grant application process (March and April 2009) | € 1,789.83 | nil |
| Advertising in newspapers and magazine - Annual call for proposals under the Communicating Europe Initiative (CEI) which was established in 1995 to raise awareness about the European Union and to improve the quality and accessibility of public information on European issues. | €6,016 .53 | nil |
Vote 29 (Irish Aid)
| Advertising | Costs | Design and print costs |
| ASTI magazine ad for school workshops at the Irish Aid Centre (Jan 2009) | €1,458 (includes design costs) | nil |
| Newspaper notices on community grants scheme for Africa Day events (Feb 2009) | €13,039.70 | €297.68 |
| Newspaper and magazine ad for Volunteer Information Fair (April 2009) | €10,930.58 | €400.95 |
| Ads for Africa Day events in ethnic press (May 2009) | €2,089 | €334.13 |
| Africa Day event outdoor advertising posters, Dublin (May 2009) | Provided free by Dublin City Council | €1031.54 |
| Ads placed in newspaper and radio in Burundi to promote the Courtney Fellowship* (Jan 2009) | €290 (approx.) | nil |
* This Fellowship was established by the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2004 in commemoration of the late Archbishop Michael Courtney, the Irish-born Papal Nuncio to Burundi who was murdered in 2003.
Question No. 328 answered with Question No. 318.
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