Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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. [4853/23]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science was established in June 2020. The table below details annual online advertising spend by the department, from the establishment of the department to date.

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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. [4871/23]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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No social media accounts of the kind referred to by the Deputy have been created by my Department.