Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount expended on access to online and hardcopy 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. [4005/20]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The costs incurred by the Department in relation to access to online and hardcopy media publications in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 are set out in the following table.

The Department currently subscribes to the following online publications:

Due to remote working, a full list of publications (newspapers, periodicals, magazines) is not readily available and we can arrange to collate and forward to the Deputy separately in due course.

The Department seeks best value in its subscriptions and minimises its costs with generic addresses where permitted.