Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government 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. [27561/20]

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government 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; and if so, the costs of same and the companies engaged. [27663/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 113 and 115 together.

My Department does not engage third party or private companies to provide media monitoring services. It does however, engage a third party to provide a daily press clippings service and the costs are outlined below.