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149 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the usual time lapse between work being done for his Department and invoices being received for this work by McMahon Sheedy Communications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3385/96]
150 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry in view of his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 8 February 1996 if he will expand on his statement that this type of consultancy has been a normal feature for many years, particularly if he means that surveys of the kind queried in this reply have been normal work for many years; whether these surveys have been kept confidential; the number of surveys in each year since 1987; the agency which carried out each survey; the cost of these surveys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3386/96]
151 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the work that will be carried out by McMahon Sheedy Communications on behalf of his Department and focused on provincial media and local radio in view of his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 102 on 8 February 1996; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3387/96]
152 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the remuneration to date by his Department of McMahon Sheedy Communications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3388/96]
153 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the reason he has decided to refuse to publish the results of a survey undertaken at public expense by McMahon Sheedy Communications consultants concerning his own standing as per his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 8 February 1996; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3389/96]
154 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the work, if any, undertaken by McMahon Sheedy Communications on their own initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3390/96]
155 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry in view of his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 8 February 1996, if he will clarify his assertion that the survey on which further information was sought and which according to his reply was undertaken by McMahon Sheedy Communications at their own initiative, was accordingly undertaken without his knowledge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3391/96]
156 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry in view of the repeated requests from Dáil Deputies, the number of persons questioned by McMahon Sheedy Communications in pursuit of their survey of his personal standing among agri-business people. [3392/96]
157 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the full remit and term of the contract of McMahon Sheedy Communications to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3393/96]
158 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the work, if any, that has been undertaken by McMahon Sheedy Communications for his Department at their own initiative in view of his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 9 February 1996. [3394/96]
159 Mr. Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the definitive dates last month during which McMahon Sheedy Communications undertook a survey for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3395/96]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158 and 159 together.
An invoice is received from the agency at the end of each month in respect of work carried out that month.
