Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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908. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff in his Department employed to work on marketing, media and social media in 2018. [54489/18]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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In 2018, my Department's Press Office had 3 full time staff who dealt with media queries. My Department additionally had 2 full-time equivalent staff working on Communications. My Department does not employ staff to work on marketing or social media. In addition, one of my Special Advisers appointed under section 11 of the Public Service Management Act 1997 works primarily on matters relating to press and communications.