Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15409/16]

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the amount of money spent on daily newspapers in 2015; if this is appropriate expenditure given the available and far cheaper online alternatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15425/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 496 and 497 together.

The Public Sector Magazine is a quarterly publication which is distributed free of charge to all departments in the public sector and semi state bodies.

My Department’s expenditure, in 2015, for daily newspapers was €20,840.

My Department is currently conducting a review of the provision of newspapers versus on-line subscriptions.