Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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684. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the level of expenditure by his Department from 1 January 2017 to date in 2017 on advertising of Government information campaigns published specifically in national and regional newspapers in addition to all online advertising for all such Government information campaigns; the name for each such information campaign to which this expenditure related; the cost of each, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54282/17]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Rural and Community Development was established on 19 July 2017. Any information relating to the functions transferred to this Department, for the requested period prior to that date, will be reported by the relevant previous parent Departments in their responses.

My Department has no expenditure on advertising of Government information campaigns to date.

However, at my request, Pobal commissioned a media campaign to increase awareness of the Seniors Alert Scheme which has been successful in increasing the number of applications significantly in recent weeks.