Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent on media monitoring services by his Department; if the role is provided by private contract operators or in-house services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27556/20]

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment 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; if so, the costs of same; and the companies engaged. [27654/20]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 41 and 43 together.

My Department is provided with a media monitoring service by Mediawatch Ltd., trading as Kantar. A collation of news coverage (both online and print) which is relevant to the Department’s remit and associated industries/stakeholders is received twice daily (morning and evening). In addition, two emails per day are received with details of broadcast coverage for relevant areas of the Department’s core remit. The costs of these service is set out in the following table:

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount expended on access to online and hard-copy media publications since May 2020 to date; and the breakdown of online and hard-copy subscriptions including the publications to which his Department subscribes. [27636/20]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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A detailed breakdown of expenditure by my Department on online media publications since May 2020 to date is set out in the table below.  Delivery of hard copy newspapers to my Department's HQ in Adelaide Road was cancelled in March of this year.