Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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88. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent on media monitoring services by her Department; if the role is provided by private contract operators or in-house services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27560/20]

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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91. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she 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 her Department; and if so, the costs of same and the companies engaged. [27665/20]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 88 and 91 together.

The information sought by the Deputy in relation to expenditure on media monitoring of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020  from my Department's administrative budget is set out below.

Cost of media monitoring service

Media monitoring of coverage relating to the Department is carried out on national and regional print and online publications as well as broadcasting channels in the Republic of Ireland.  This service was provided by Kantar Media  from 2017 until February 2020, when the service transferred to LFMI Media/Rue Point Media.  Newspaper Licensing Ireland (UK service) provides access to UK based publications. As the House was informed in response to Parliamentary Question No 11838/20 my Department does not engage in social media monitoring.

Cost is a primary consideration in all decisions related to expenditure on media media monitoring.