Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current budgets in his Department for social media advertising for 2021; and the campaigns behind each budget line in tabular form. [44023/20]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department engages in social media, where appropriate, in order to draw attention to important issues in the Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science sector. The use of social media allows the Department to reach audiences that might not be as likely to see or hear traditional forms of media such as newspapers, television and radio, for example. 

This allows valuable public attention to be drawn to important issues of concern to those accessing further and higher education. 

There has been, as yet, no provision specifically set aside for social media in the Department's budget for 2021. 

The Department's social media is currently being operated by its Communications Team.