Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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247. To ask the Minister for Health the expenses incurred by his Department to date in 2019 for the implementation of ongoing communications strategy initiatives that highlight schemes and programmes operated under the auspices of his Department including advertising and promotion on TV, radio, newspapers and online in tabular form; and the level of expenditure for each such initiative. [52120/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Please see attached table of information in reply to your query.

Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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248. To ask the Minister for Health the expenses incurred by his Department to date in 2019 for the commissioning, development, production, promotion and online sharing of a video that highlighted schemes and programmes operated by his Department in tabular form; if such videos have been commissioned for 2020; and if so, the estimated costs of each such video. [52137/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The majority of videos highlighting schemes and programmes of the Department for use online are produced in-house by the Press and Communications Office. As a result, there are no commissioning, developing or production costs associated.

External production and promotion of any Healthy Ireland videos have been included in the overall online costs for the Healthy Ireland awareness campaign 2019. (Please see table attached)

External video commissioning, development, production, promotion costs under Sláintecare are provided for in table attached.

In 2019 the Dept. of Health promoted 3 videos on its Facebook page. Total cost amounting to €135. (Further details on table attached)

There are no plans for any external video production in 2020 at this time.