Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 443: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 849 of 18 April 2012, if anyone in his Department has had any contacts with the Local Government Management Agency in relation to their plans for an advertising campaign on the household charge; if he was kept informed of their plans for an advertising campaign; if the costs for the advertising campaign were known to him; where the money to pay for the advertising campaign at a national level was sourced; if his attention has been drawn to the total costs of the advertising campaign on the household charge; when he became aware of same; what that figure is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21218/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) is administering the household charge system on a shared service/agency basis for all county and city councils. The administration costs, including those in relation advertising, are a matter for the LGMA and the county and city councils. My Department is represented on the Household Charge Project Board which is overseeing the household charge and I am kept informed of the Board's decisions, including those in relation to advertising. The household charge administration costs are being recouped from the Local Government Fund, into which the proceeds of the household charge are being paid by the LGMA. The cost of advertising undertaken to date is €302,954.