Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out in tabular form the amount of money spent by his Department on media advertising from March 2011 to February 2016 by media organisation, newspaper, radio, television or any other form of media to which advertisement fees were paid by his Department; and the amount of money paid per year to each media organisation. [12884/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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For the Deputy's information, the following table lists, by organisation, expenditure from my Department's administrative budget on advertisement fees. Expenditure on public advertisements is incurred in connection with a wide range of 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, and invitations to tender for school building projects. Every effort is made to keep advertising costs as low as possible. For the Deputy's information, the total expenditure in this area was reduced significantly in recent years. By way of comparison, €2,138,000 was spent in this area in the period 2006 to 2010, while the total expenditure in the period 2011 to 2015 was €374,000 a reduction of approximately 80%.