Carol Nolan (Laois-Offaly, Independent)
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270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department, or any body under the aegis of her Department, has facilitated in-person or remote briefings on any issue by organisations (details supplied) from 2020 to date; if so, the topic discussed; the fees paid to the organisations for these briefings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52187/23]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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I can confirm to the Deputy that my Department has no record of any payment being made to the companies specified in her question. On 10 May 2023, The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) presented to Department of Education officials on the topics of misinformation and disinformation. The topics presented were the following:

- Introduction to the work of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue

- What is mis/disinformation?

- What are conspiracy theories?

- The overlap (between conspiracy theories and disinformation and those involved)

- The Irish landscape

- How we can counter disinformation

The presentation took place online and was provided free of charge.

The information in respect of State bodies within the scope of the Deputy’s question is not held by my Department. Contact details for these bodies are set out in the attached document should the Deputy wish to contact them directly with this query.