Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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259. To ask the Minister for Health 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. [27662/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has engaged two media monitoring companies consecutively, in the years in question, to monitor and provide media reports with regards to the health service. See below breakdown of these costs for the years in question.

The total cost of these services in that timeframe was €75,978.63.