Departmental Expenditure

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 13 May 2020

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Ceisteanna (164)

Catherine Murphy

Ceist:

164. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount expended on access to online and hardcopy media publications in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the breakdown of online and hard copy subscriptions including the publications that his Department subscribes to; if consideration has been given to using a banded set of IP addresses for online subscriptions rather than individual accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4005/20]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Education and Skills

The costs incurred by the Department in relation to access to online and hardcopy media publications in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 are set out in the following table.

2017	2018	2019	2020 to date
€22,681.09	€16,914.04	€21,470.78	€3,454.85

The Department currently subscribes to the following online publications:

Times Online

Sunday Business Post

Economist

The Irish Times

Financial Times

Irish Independent

Irish Daily Mail

The Times Higher Education Magazine

Due to remote working, a full list of publications (newspapers, periodicals, magazines) is not readily available and we can arrange to collate and forward to the Deputy separately in due course.

The Department seeks best value in its subscriptions and minimises its costs with generic addresses where permitted.