Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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186. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, for the years 2007 to 2010,inclusive, the total photography costs in her Department, including a list of which photographers were booked, the photographers used and a breakdown of costs associated with each occasion that a photographer was used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4499/15]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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187. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, for the years 1997 to 2007, inclusive, the total photography costs in her Department, including a list of which photographers were booked, the photographers used and breakdown of costs associated with each occasion that a photographer was used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4515/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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I propose to take Question Nos. 186 and 187 together.

Photography services are used, in conjunction with some press releases and conferences, to communicate the Department’s initiatives, schemes and services to customers and to the regional and national media. The total photography costs incurred by my Department for the period 1998 to 2010 are set out in the table below. No details are available for 1997.

The procurement of these photography services is carried out in accordance with national and EU procurement procedures and since March 2012, the Department has been procuring photography services under the Framework Agreement established by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in February 2012.

Full details of the Framework are available online via the National Procurement Services contract list at .