Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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666. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the photography costs for her Department in each year since March 2011 inclusive of costs incurred from use of the ministerial allowance; the list of occasions for which photographers were booked; the photographers used; the costs associated with each occasion that a photographer was used, in tabular form; if there is a policy regarding the booking of photographers within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54222/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Details of the costs incurred on photography by my Department since March 2011 is set out in the table. Included in this table are 8 instances where the name of the photographer was not readily identifiable from the information contained in my Departments financial management system. Officials are going through the records to ascertain the names involved and I will revert to the Deputy in due course.

The overall objective is to keep costs of this nature to a minimum and photographers are only used when deemed necessary in the course of Departmental activity.