Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 771: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of money spent on advertising and promotions in his Department and each agency under his aegis for each of the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2009 in tabular readable form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31581/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to direct the Deputy to the replies to Parliamentary Question Nos. 382 of 22 April 2008, 194 to 196 of 5 June 2008 and 305 and 306 of 23 June 2009. I can also inform the Deputy that in October 2008 my Department ran two awareness raising campaigns concerning (a) Fireworks, at a total cost of €150,320 and (b) Anti-Human Trafficking, at a cost of €129,566, exclusive of VAT. In addition to these campaigns my Department made funding of €45,980 available to Ruhama in 2008 in order to develop a television advertising campaign to promote awareness of Human Trafficking. Awareness raising initiatives such as this were recommended in the National Women's Strategy 2007-2016.

In the time available it has not been possible for An Garda Síochána and the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission to compile the information requested by the Deputy. When this information comes to hand I will forward it to him.