Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance 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, online advertising, outdoor advertising and other forms of advertising and consultancy or production costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24971/09]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 155: To ask the Minister for Finance 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. [24986/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 154 and 155 together.

Neither my Department, nor the following bodies under its aegis - the Office of Public Works the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Office of the Appeals Commissioner, the Office of the Commission for Public Service Appointments, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Public Appointments Service and the State Laboratory - carried out advertising campaigns in the relevant period 2009 to promote their policies or programmes.

The following tables set out details in respect of relevant advertising campaigns undertaken by the Office of the Revenue Commissioner and the Office of Public Works in the period since the start of 2009.