Departmental Funding

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 29 June 2023

Thursday, 29 June 2023

Questions (312)

Denis Naughten

Question:

312. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total advertising budget allocated by his Department and agencies in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023, respectively; the funding provided directly to RTÉ in each year; if he has sought and secured an assurance that none of this funding was rebated via the RTÉ advertising barter account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32011/23]

Written answers

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Deputy Darragh O'Brien)

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has a limited central advertising budget. This limited budget is used for incidental advertising spending and no direct payments to RTÉ are recorded under this budget for the past ten years.

Year	Budget
2023	€60,000
2022	€55,000
2021	€55,000
2020	€55,000
2019	€55,000
2018	€48,000
2017	€31,167
2016	€36,500
2015	€58,000
2014	€58,000
2013	€79,000

Further resources for advertising campaigns are built in to projects and initiatives with a public information, campaign or communication need as required. Advertising is generally booked through media buying agencies who manage the relationship with advertising platforms and publishers, devise media plans to make best use of allocated advertising spending and book advertising space for the Department on channels deemed valuable to that campaign’s objective.

During the period 2013 – 2023 no direct payments for advertising were made to RTÉ.

The information requested in relation to bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the individual bodies concerned. Arrangements have been put in place by each Agency to facilitate the provision of information directly to members of the Oireachtas. The contact email address for each agency is set out in the following table: 

State Body	Contact E-mails
An Bord Pleanála	[e-mail] cc: [e-mail]
An Fóram Uisce (the Water Forum)	[e-mail]
Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum	[e-mail]
Ervia	[e-mail]
Gas Networks Ireland	[e-mail]
Heritage Council	[e-mail]
Housing Finance Agency	[e-mail]  cc: [e-mail]
Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency	[e-mail]  cc: [e-mail]
Uisce Eireann	[e-mail]
Land Development Agency	[e-mail] [e-mail]
Local Government Management Agency	[e-mail]
National Oversight and Audit Commission	[e-mail]
National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee	[e-mail]
Office of the Planning Regulator	[e-mail]
Tailte Éireann (formerly: OSI, VALOFF, PRAI)	[e-mail] cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]
Pyrite Resolution Board	[e-mail]
Residential Tenancies Board	[e-mail]
Valuation Tribunal	[e-mail]
Waterways Ireland	[e-mail]