As at the time this question was received the amount my Department incurred in respect of access to online and hardcopy media publications in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and in 2020; and the breakdown of online and hard copy subscriptions including the publications that my Department subscribes to is provided in the table below:
(The majority of subscriptions for the Department are managed centrally by our Facilities Management Unit. Individual subscriptions are only purchased if their use is specific to a particular business area.)
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Amount, €
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Subscription
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
(to date)
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Fintel Ltd (Finance Ireland)
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2,398.50
|
2,125.50
|
2,125.50
|
-
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Bloomberg Inc.
|
22,361.87
|
21,951.64
|
23,304.19
|
-
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Centralbanking.com
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4,960.00
|
-
|
-
|
-
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INFORMA Hardcopy and online subscription to the Money Laundering Bulletin
|
1,700.00
|
-
|
-
|
-
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Industrial Relations News
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849.00
|
861.00
|
779.00
|
-
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Irish Tax Institute – Irish Tax Review
|
375.15
|
375.15
|
375.15
|
-
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Irish Tax Institute – Taxfind Online Access
|
-
|
-
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1,790.89
|
-
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Financial Times - Online Media
|
19,422.00
|
21,337.00
|
24,625.00
|
21,394.00
|
Irish Times - Online Media
|
7,405.02
|
7,282.00
|
6,455.63
|
-
|
New York Times - Online Media
|
267.29
|
279.39
|
283.32
|
-
|
Irish Times – Hardcopy Subscription
|
2,248.59
|
1,293.78
|
1,385.67
|
121.21
|
Irish Independent – Hardcopy Subscription
|
2,511.40
|
1,293.78
|
1,385.67
|
115.94
|
Sunday Business Post – Hardcopy Subscription
|
316.01
|
-
|
-
|
-
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Irish Examiner – Hardcopy Subscription
|
967.43
|
488.31
|
458.15
|
19.55
|
Financial Times – Hardcopy Subscription
|
2,027.60
|
3,204.28
|
3,217.25
|
484.16
|
London Times – Hardcopy Subscription
|
423.64
|
-
|
100.30
|
15.30
|
Evening Herald – Hardcopy Subscription
|
368.30
|
475.56
|
500.57
|
11.05
|
Farmers Journal – Hardcopy Subscription
|
191.44
|
140.39
|
136.52
|
24.48
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Guardian – Hardcopy Subscription
|
248.51
|
536.85
|
566.89
|
22.95
|
New York Times – Hardcopy Subscription
|
208.97
|
568.51
|
589.46
|
24.48
|
Economist – Hardcopy Subscription
|
191.11
|
464.87
|
650.30
|
70.13
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Business and Finance – Hardcopy Subscription
|
77.09
|
23.67
|
15.30
|
-
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Wall Street Journal – Online
|
107.98
|
-
|
-
|
57.98
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Euro Intelligence
|
-
|
246.00
|
461.25
|
-
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Newspapers - Hardcopy
|
140.40
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281.20
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318.55
|
53.00
|
Others*
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1,532.28
|
-
|
-
|
-
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Total
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71,299.58
|
63,228.88
|
69,524.56
|
22,414.23
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* The Sun, Daily Star,Mirror, Irish Mail, New Statesman, Phoenix Magazine, Der Spiegel, Limerick Leader