Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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1219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount expended on access to online and hard copy media publications in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the breakdown of online and hard copy subscriptions including the publications that his Department subscribes to; if consideration has been given to using a banded set of IP addresses for online subscriptions rather than individual accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4010/20]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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As the provision of all hard-copy newspapers to my Department is operated as a single service with one invoice covering all titles, a breakdown by publication is not possible. The total spent on all media subscriptions is as follows:-

A breakdown of payments relating to online newspaper subscriptions is as follows:

To date, my Department has not considered using a banded width of IP addresses for online subscriptions as my Department only has one subscription to the newspapers listed above for use by its Press Office.