Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by his Department and State agencies under his aegis on outside contract and or third party public relations advice and training in past three years to date in 2017, by year and company engaged, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29239/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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The information requested by the Deputy is available on my Departments website at the following link External Expenditure. This information is updated twice yearly, the first 6 months of 2017 will be available on the website early in the coming weeks. With regard the agencies under my Department's remit, I will forward your question to the agencies for their direct reply to you. If you do not hear back within 10 working days please contact my private office.

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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250. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount spent by her Department and State agencies under her aegis on outside contract and or third party public relations advice and training in past three years to date in 2017, by year and company engaged, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29226/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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There was no spend by my Department on the matters referred to in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The spend to date in 2017 is in the table. The figures refer to spend on public relations advice. There has been no spend in relation to public relations training to date in 2017.

The bodies under the aegis of my Department are the Child and Family Agency (Tusla), the Adoption Authority of Ireland, the Ombudsman for Children and the Oberstown Children Detention Campus. I have referred the question to each of these bodies and asked them to provide the information sought directly to the Deputy.