Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth 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. [4846/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The table below provides details on the amount spent by my Department on online advertising in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. 

*It should be noted that a response to a similar PQ was provided in July 2022, this response included spending by the Department's Communications Unit only on both traditional and online advertising. The information above is based on a Department wide response covering all areas of the Department.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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163. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth 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. [4864/23]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Department does not engage in the activity the Deputy describes.