Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of semi-State bodies that fall under her auspices; the annual turnover of each body and the losses incurred over the past five years [3403/11]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has a number of non-commercial agencies under its aegis none of which are within the category encompassed in the question, i.e. state owned enterprises established as a legal entity (company) by government to operate in commercial affairs.

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of her Department have carried out advertising campaigns during the course of 2010 to promote policies or programmes being implemented by those agencies or by her 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 she will make a statement on the matter. [3426/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has carried out, during the course of 2010, advertising campaigns to promote any policies or programmes being implemented by her 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 she will make a statement on the matter. [3441/11]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 and 142 together.

My Department incurs expenditure on public advertisements in connection with a wide range or educational programmes and schemes including, staff appointments in the education sector; invitations to attend local hearings; invitations to forward submissions on education-related schemes/projects; invitations to tender for school building projects. Such advertising is placed in the print media. A total cost of approximately €112,000 was incurred in 2010 in connection with advertising in the print media.

My Department did not carry out any promotion campaigns in 2010 involving broadcast or outdoor advertising and did not incur any consultancy or production costs in relation to any advertising campaigns.

With regard to the bodies under the aegis of my Department, the expenditure incurred on advertising and promotions is an administrative matter for each agency. This information is not collated centrally by my Department. If the Deputy has a particular advertising/ promotions campaign in mind in respect of agencies, I would be happy to have my officials obtain the relevant details and communicate them to the Deputy.