Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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86. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent by his Department on online advertising in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023, in tabular form; if he will provide details in relation to this spending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4851/23]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the amount spent by my Department on advertising from 2013 to date in 2023 is set out in tabular form below which includes both traditional and online advertising. 

The Department is not in a position to demarcate online spend from other forms of expenditure, as some advertising will inevitably involve both.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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87. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any instances where the public relations unit and or press office of his Department undertook to create social media accounts under false names, which were operated in order to further the messaging or communications of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4869/23]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that only the official Department of Finance social media accounts are used for communications by the press office.