Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 264 to 266, inclusive, together.

My Department uses advertising to promote a range of services, supports and initiatives that affect people and communities across a range of policy areas.

As the media landscape has evolved over the past number of years, advertising expenditure has grown to address the diverse needs of different audiences, and ensure that we are meeting our Irish language advertising requirements under the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021. Recent investment was also increased to support consumers to manage their energy use and costs via the national Reduce Your Use campaign.

My Department works with a media buying agency to determine the best mix of media channels to reach the appropriate target audiences for the specific campaign objectives.

The table below sets out my Department’s advertising expenditure on specific platforms over the period requested by the Deputy. These figures are excluding VAT.

-	X (formerly Twitter)	Facebook / Instagram	Google
2023*	€52,474.00	€137,399.00	€70,470.00
2022	€43,246.44	€74,984.57	€36,378.75
2021**	€2,250.59	€1,300.00	€267.58

*2023 figures cover campaign activity up to 27 November – some activity may not have been reconciled yet, so this figure is subject to change in the future

**2021 figures do not include spend of €20,000 – we are waiting for the relevant media buying agency to confirm which platforms this was spent on