Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 July 2022
24. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has spent money or sought external assistance with Departmental, Ministerial public relations; and if so, the cost; and the name of the agencies, consultants and companies involved in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [39970/22]
View answerThe public relations services providers engaged by both my Department and the Offices of my Department, the details of the services supplied and the expenditure on each from 2012 to 2018 are set out in the attached table. My Department has not incurred any public relations services costs from 2019 to date and consequently has not engaged any third party companies to provide same.
|
Year |
Name of Public Relations Services Provider |
Details of Services Supplied |
Cost € |
Total |
|
2012 |
Barberry Limited trading as Keating and Associates |
To provide NERA with Communications Services (including PR; Media Monitoring; advising on the design, content and production of reports and brochures and assisting with website content). |
5,268 |
5,268 |
|
2013 |
Barberry Limited trading as Keating and Associates MRPA Kinman Communications trading as MKC Communications Limited |
To provide NERA with Communications Services (including PR; Media Monitoring; advising on the design, content and production of reports and brochures and assisting with website content). To provide the Department with Press and Media Relations Services for the Irish Presidency of the EU. (This was a once off exercise/expenditure due to Presidency events.) |
3,183 76,480 |
79,663 |
|
2014 |
Barberry Ltd T/A Keating and Associates |
To provide NERA with Communications Services (including PR; Media Monitoring; advising on the design, content, and production of reports & brochures). |
3,136 |
3,136 |
|
2015 |
Barberry Ltd |
To provide NERA with Communications Services (including PR; Media Monitoring; advising on the design, content, and production of reports & brochures). |
3,505 |
3,505 |
|
2016 |
Barberry Ltd Fuzion Communications |
To provide the Workplace Relations Commission with Communication Services (including PR; Media Monitoring advising on the design, content and production of reports and brochures. Provision of Communications services to the Workplace Relations Commission |
4,981 686 |
5,667 |
|
2017 |
Drury Porter Novelli Fuzion Communications Fuzion Communications |
To provide PR and event support for information campaigns; encouraging and informing companies on how to prepare their business for Brexit Provision of a range of Communications Services to the Workplace Relations Commission Development of Communications Strategy for the Workplace Relations Commission to enhance activity impact and its roll out in 2017 |
15,238 6,753 4,404 |
26,395 |
|
2018 |
Fuzion Communications |
Communications advice to the Workplace Relations Commission |
1,882 |
1,882 |
