Departmental Expenditure

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 May 2020

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Questions (1092)

Catherine Murphy

Question:

1092. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount expended on access to online and hardcopy media publications in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the breakdown of online and hard copy subscriptions including the publications that her Department subscribes to; if consideration has been given to using a banded set of IP addresses for online subscriptions rather than individual accounts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4001/20]

Written answers

Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Katherine Zappone)

The information requested is contained in the following table:

Spending on Media Publications 2017 to 2020 (all figures in Euros):

		2017	2018	2019	2020
Digital	Reach Home Delivery	160	170.8	214.18	59.97
	Post Publications Ltd.	169.99	169.99	169.99	nil
	The Irish Times Ltd.	1724.71	403.32	1778	nil (invoice to be received in Oct 2020)
	Kantar Media	5990.38	4297.58	3814.58	779.52
	New York Times	nil	nil	12	nil
Hard	McCarthy's News Delivery Service	3914.3	3328.9	nil	nil
	OfficeDrop Ltd.	nil	nil	3233.56	526.84

The Department has no subscriptions to online or hardcopy publications that are in the form of individual accounts.