Written answers
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Department of Rural and Community Development
Departmental Expenditure
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.
Year | Company providing media monitoring service | Amount |
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2018 | Kantar | €7,180.75 |
2019 | Kantar | €12,130.29 |
2020 (YTD) | Kantar | €9,259.16 |
Total | €28,570.20 |
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.
Online subscriptions |
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Irish Farmer's Journal |
Irish Independent |
Irish Times |
Hard copy subscriptions |
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Farmer’s Journal |
Northern Standard |
Phoenix |
Anglo Celt |
The Irish Times |
Irish Daily Mail |
Irish Independent |
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