Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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194. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure by his Department by heading (details supplied) in each of the years since June 1997 to January 2011, in tabular form; and the miscellaneous expenditure not relating to set Department budgets pertaining to the headings. [52224/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Department does not collect data in the manner that would allow the Deputy's question in full. During the period concerned, my Department primarily retained the services of public relations / communications and advertising consultancy firms to implement national health promotion campaigns. Table A below shows expenditure on media consultants for the period 1997 to 2008. This covers a variety of services ranging from the provision of advice, through the cost of purchasing advertising space, to organising events. During the period 2009 to 2011 the Department did not spent any money on public relations or communications consultants.

Information on expenditure on consultancy services is paid from the A7 subhead. Data in tables (B) and (C) details expenditure under this subhead from 1997 to 2011 is contained in the following links.

The tables below presents data on the Department's A7 consultancy expenditure from 1997 - 2011. This has been split into two tables 2011 - 2000 and 1999 - 1997 due to table limits of 255 rows. They are contained in the following links.