Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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261. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the list of uses of the external public relations firm; the internal Department policy with regard to employing external groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49153/14]

Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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269. To ask the Minister for Defence the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [49378/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 261 and 269 together.

My Department has not incurred any expenditure on external public relations since March 2011.