Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the airline costs for his Department for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2695/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Officials from my Department attend meetings in respect of EU-related issues and international agreements as necessary to ensure that the State is suitably represented at such engagements. Other events and meetings will also be attended by Ministers or officials as deemed appropriate. The cost to the Department of providing airline travel in 2018 was €75,023.

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the cost of newspapers in his Department in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2712/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department avails of an electronic press cuttings service which serves for most of its printed media monitoring needs. In terms of hard-copy printed newspapers, the cost of purchase for my Department in 2018 totalled approximately €10,824. In general, the Department relies on online versions of the daily newspapers but not all newspapers have an online presence and there can be differences between online and printed content.