Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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It was not possible for my Department and a number of the bodies under the aegis of my Department to provide the information sought in the time available. These bodies are the Central Bank of Ireland, Financial Services & Pensions Ombudsman and the National Treasury Management Agency. I will, therefore, make arrangements to provide the information to the Deputy in due course.

The remaining bodies that incurred advertising expenditure in the timeline specified have provided the information in the tables below. The Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland is the only body who provided funding to RTÉ. In respect of the payments made to RTÉ, all of the below bodies have confirmed that no funding was rebated through RTE’s barter account.

Credit Review Office

Year	Amount (€)
2013	161,817.93
2014	205,896.91
2015	291,023.46
2016	206,340.99
2017	136,577.93
2018	47,545.63
2019	41,482.61
2020	22,528.28
2021	48,637.70
2022	38,522.85
2023 to date	8,577.77

Home Building Finance Ireland (Established December 2018)

Year	Amount (€)
2018-2019	Nil
2020	3,819
2021	14,235
2022	10,920
2023 to date	5,124

Investor Compensation Company DAC

Expenditure relates to national newspaper notices regarding failed investment firms.

Year	Amount (€)
2013	8,237.33
2014	3,684.98
2015-2016	Nil
2017	6,720.40
2018	2,589.73
2019	Nil
2020	12,145.27
2021-2023	Nil

Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General

Year	Amount (€)
2013-2017	Nil
2018	2,277
2019	Nil
2020	14,177
2021	1,089
2022-2023	Nil

Office of the Revenue Commissioners

Revenue contracts with media advertising agencies for all services related to design creation and ad placement for any advertising or media campaigns. All advertising payments made by Revenue are paid directly to these agencies, whose invoices cover all costs (including third party costs) associated with these campaigns. Revenue does not issue payments directly to, or otherwise engage with, any specific media outlets in relation to paid advertising.

Spark Foundry have been the primary advertising agency used by Revenue throughout the period cited, with some additional services having been provided by Inform Ireland on an ad hoc basis.

Year	Amount (€)
2013	1,443,413.64
2014	306,050.22
2015	734,068.12
2016	747,823.00
2017	1,059,860.92
2018	527,427.24
2019	415,995.59
2020	174,357.43
2021	494,845.89
2022	360,242.70
2023 to date	34,830.73

Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland (Established 2014)

Amounts below cover both advertising and creative work, and marketing materials. The SBCI used an agency from 2015-2017 which has been taken over and it is not possible to get a granular breakdown of any spend with RTE. All advertising payments made by SBCI were paid directly to agencies.

Year	Amount (€)	Funding provided directly to RTÉ (€)
2015	410,092.59
2016	301,859.02
2017	349,807.72
2018	447,740.20	38,413
2019	384,951.63	22,896
2020	644,837.63	133,875
2021	93,164.15	23,500
2022	435,948.83	41,159
2023 to date	199,503.50	15,510