Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department in each year since March 2011; the list of uses of the external public relations firm; the internal Department policy with regard to employing external groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54236/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department generally does not employ external public relations firms and did not employ any external public relations firms from 2011 to 2016. Public relations advice is provided by my Department’s Press Office.  

In April of this year, the services of "All Good Tales", a public relations company, were used to provide training for staff members for the National Animal Surveillance Programme. The cost of this training was €5,965.