Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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288. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development 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. [27571/20]

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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290. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development 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; if so, the costs of same; and the companies engaged. [27655/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 288 and 290 together.

My Department was established on July 19th 2017 and did not use a third-party contractor for media monitoring until 2018, when a service provider was sourced through an Office of Government Procurement framework arrangement.

Information regarding the ongoing costs of the service are set out in the table below.

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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289. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount expended on access to online and hardcopy media publications since May 2020 to date; and the breakdown of online and hard copy subscriptions including the publications that her Department subscribes to. [27637/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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From May 2020 to date, my Department has spent €791.62 for access to various online and hardcopy media publications, as detailed below.