Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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169. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount expended with respect to promoting and carrying out the Rural Opportunity roadshow campaign to date; the costs associated with advertising, by online and offline, design work, photography, event staging and venue hire, respectively; the cost of creating online content to promote this campaign and maintenance costs to date in tabular form; the budget allocated for promotional activities in 2018 and 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21323/19]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The rural opportunity campaign and events are intended to highlight to communities the opportunities available to them in terms of funding programmes and supports from Government and agencies.

The table below provides details of the expenditure incurred by my Department to date in relation to the series of Government Rural Opportunity events held across the country.

I can confirm that there is no central budget within my Department set aside solely for promotional activities. Expenditure relating to promotion of individual programmes or events is incurred as the need arises and is generally met at divisional or business unit level.