Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount spent on facilitating departmental members' attendance at social media training conferences or other external events. [19389/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department's social media presence is managed by the Press and Information Office of my Department. Since 2011, staff members from the Press and Information Office and I.T. sections have attended 3 training courses on the use of social media, at a total cost of €475. Separate to these courses, a member of my Department's staff attended Social Media Dublin 2017, a conference on the topic of social media, in January 2017, and 3 staff members attended the same conference in 2018. Total expenditure by my Department for attendance at these events was approximately €1,000.