Departmental Advertising.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 5 June 2008

Thursday, 5 June 2008

Ceisteanna (217, 218, 219)

Leo Varadkar

Ceist:

217 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by those agencies or by his Department in the years 2005, 2006 and 2007; the campaign or relevant programme; the cost of advertising in publications, broadcast advertising, online advertising, outdoor advertising, and other forms of advertising as well as consultancy or production costs for each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22342/08]

Leo Varadkar

Ceist:

218 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out or will carry out advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by those agencies or by his Department in the course of 2008; the campaign or relevant programme; the cost of advertising in publications, broadcast advertising, online advertising, outdoor advertising and other forms of advertising as well as consultancy or production costs to date in 2008; the anticipated cost by the end of 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22356/08]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Deputy Eamon Ryan)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 217 and 218 together.

Advertising campaigns and their associated costs, commissioned by agencies under the aegis of my Department, are a day to day operational matter for those agencies and I have no function in that regard.

Leo Varadkar

Ceist:

219 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has in the year to date or intends by year end to carry out any advertising campaigns to promote policies or programmes being implemented by his department; the details of those campaigns; the costs of advertising in publications, broadcast advertising, outdoor advertising and any consultancy or production costs incurred in the year to date, the costs that are expected to be incurred by year’s end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22370/08]

Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (Deputy Eamon Ryan)

Details of the two relevant advertising campaigns under way within my Department are shown in the following table:

Details of campaign	Cost of advertising in publications	Broadcast advertising	Outdoor Advertising	Other advertising/ DM/ Digital/ Research	PR/ Consultancy costs	Costs to date	Expected Costs by year end
	€	€	€	€	€	€	€
Power of One — national energy efficiency campaign	0	209,476.00	0	56,857.00	329,066.00	595,396.00	2,037,441.00 (Total for 2008)
Make IT secure Campaign 2008	172,913.54	166,110.21	72,044.61	0	432,142.31	843,210.67	843,210.67