Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent on media monitoring services by his Department; if the role is provided by private contract operators or in-house services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27559/20]

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has engaged a third-party company in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 to conduct media monitoring and-or provide reports on media coverage of his Department; if so, the costs of same and the companies engaged. [27666/20]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 77 and 79 together.

The third party media monitoring costs for my Department and the Office of Government Procurement, which is also part of my Department, are set out in the table below.  The details of the 2020 costs for the Department itself reflect a change of supplier earlier this year.

The Deputy may wish to note that some media monitoring is also conducted by staff of my Department’s Press Office as part of their normal duties.

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Office of Government Procurement

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount expended on access to online and hard-copy media publications since May 2020 to date; and the breakdown of online and hard-copy subscriptions, including the publications to which his Department subscribes. [27648/20]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The details requested for my Department and for the Office of Government Procurement, which is also part of my Department, are set out in the tables below.