Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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613. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of money her Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times Magazine in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15419/16]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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My Department did not incur any expenditure in 2015 on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine. Copies of this publication are provided free of charge by the publisher for circulation amongst staff in the Department.

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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614. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of money spent on daily newspapers in 2015; if this is an appropriate expenditure given the available and far cheaper online alternatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15435/16]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The total expenditure on hard copy newspapers by my Department and Offices in 2015 was €21,530. The newspapers were purchased in respect of the Offices of the Minister, Ministers of State, the Press Office, Office of the Secretary General, members of the Management Board and include a number of business newspapers for Divisional use. Also, in 2015, my Department purchased ten on line subscriptions to three daily newspapers at a total cost of €2,139.

The purchase of hard copy and on line subscriptions to daily newspapers was authorised in accordance with procedures that were introduced in the Department in 2008 that significantly reduced the annual expenditure on newspapers. My Department is mindful of the need to secure value for money and, accordingly, strives to keep costs to the minimum while ensuring that its business needs to purchases newspapers can be met in the most appropriate manner.