Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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. [27564/20]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The Department engages the services of an external media monitoring provider for the monitoring of newspaper publications. Social media is monitored internally in the Department by the communications unit.

Media Monitoring costs:

In 2019, the  total spent was €30,314.21 including licensing fee for Newspaper Licensing Ireland and NLA Media Access.

In 2020, the total spent to date is €15,024.45.