Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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455. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the costs incurred by her Department in respect of advertising in all forms to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21118/19]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The information requested in respect of the expenditure incurred by my Department on advertising to date in 2019 is set out in the following table:

My Department engaged in an advertising campaign to bring sectoral and public awareness to the new School Aged Childcare regulations which commenced on 18th February 2019.

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