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Departmental Expenditure

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 July 2018

Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Ceisteanna (1277)

Jack Chambers

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1277. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her Department's expenditure on public relations in 2017 and to date in 2018. [34241/18]

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Details of expenditure incurred by my Department and its Offices on third party public relations advice, communications advice, advertising and public awareness campaigns from January 2017 to date in 2018 are set out in the following table. 

My Department and its Offices use external service providers having regard to the business needs for such services. In engaging such providers, the Department and its Offices are mindful of the need to secure value for money and, accordingly, strive to keep costs to the minimum.

Expenditure incurred by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation and its Offices on Public Relations Advice, Communications Advice, Advertising and Public Awareness Campaigns from 1 January, 2017 to date

Name of Company

Service Provided

Cost Incurred in 2017 - €

Strategem b.t.l. Ltd.

To provide the Department with a six month public campaign to raise awareness of the Prompt Payment Code. (This amount relates to work carried out in 2016.)

25,155

Drury Porter Novelli

PR and event support for information campaigns; encouraging and informing companies on how to prepare their business for Brexit

15,238

Fuzion Communications

Provision of Communications Services to the Workplace Relations Commission

6,753

Fuzion Communications

Development of Communications Strategy for Workplace Relations Commission to enhance activity impact and its 2017 roll out

4,404

Mediavest Limited

Various newspaper advertisements relating to the Department’s statutory functions

19,192

Iris Oifigiúil

Various Official Notices in Government Publication,Iris Oifigiúil, relating to the Department’s statutory functions

5,108

Mediavest Limited

Advertising in daily newspapers in relation to Joint Labour Committees

13,656

Iris Oifigiúil

Official Notices in Iris Oifigiúil in relation to Joint Labour Committees

31

Mediavest Limited

Advertisements - Accountancy Ireland

10,203

Mediavest Limited

Advertisements placed by Companies Registration Office in newspapers and accountancy publications regarding mandatory electronic filing required for companies filing their annual returns

97,952

Mediavest Limited

Radio advertisements by Companies Registration Office regarding mandatory electronic filing required for companies filing their annual returns

49,993

Mediavest Limited

Advertisements placed by Companies Registration Office in website editions of newspapers regarding mandatory electronic filing required for companies filing their annual returns

6,158

Mediavest Limited

Advertisements placed by Companies Registration Office in newspapers regarding change of public office address

7,145

Fuzion Communications

Advertising in relation to the opening of the Workplace Relations Commission Office in Sligo

3,198

Name of Company

Service Provided

Cost Incurred in 2018 - €

Fuzion Communications

Communications advice to Workplace Relations Commission

1,882

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