Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to provide, broken down per annum, the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department since coming into office, in tabular form; the external public relations firm used; to outline the internal departmental policy with regard to employing external groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20395/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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My Department has not incurred any costs in relation to the provision of public relations services from the date of my appointment on the 8th May 2014 to the 30th June 2016.

It is my Department's policy to use in house resources as much as possible and to restrict the use of external groups to a minimum.