Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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190. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he has engaged a third-party company in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 to conduct media monitoring and-or provide reports on media coverage of his Department; and if so, the costs of same and the companies engaged. [27653/20]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Department has had a contract in place with Media Watch Ltd., trading as Kantar Media, for the years 2017 to-date. The contract is for the monitoring of print, online, social and broadcast media and covers all issues that are relevant to the duties and responsibilities of the Department. The majority of the costs, as set out below, and borne under the contract are for the provision of daily press cuttings from national newspapers.