Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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186. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs 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. [27566/20]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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To date in 2020, my Department has spent €4,261.05 on media monitoring services. The services are provided by Media Watch Ltd., trading as Kantar Media, a private company.  Media monitoring services are not provided in-house.

My Department's overall objective in this regard is to keep costs of this nature to a minimum and media monitoring services are only used when deemed necessary in the course of Departmental activity.