Department of Social Protection

1.The total amount of money spent by the Irish Government/Department of Public Expenditure & Reform on Covid-19 awareness advertising for each newspaper(local/regional/national), radio station(local/national),TV station, online media outlet (such as YouTube) or any media organisation that received Covid-19 awareness advertising payments in 2020. Please give an individual listing of the total amount paid for each newspaper/radio station/tv station/online media outlet/media organisation in 2020. If payments were made to the parent company of a media organisation, then please list the name of the parent company and the media organisation that the advertising payments were attributed to. 2.The total amount of money spent by the Irish Government/ Department of Public Expenditure & Reform on Covid-19 awareness advertising for each newspaper(local/regional/national), radio station(local/national),TV station, online media outlet (such as YouTube) or any media organisation that received Covid-19 awareness advertising payments in 2021. Please give an individual listing of the total amount paid for each newspaper/radio station/tv station/online media outlet/media organisation in 2021. If payments were made to the parent company of a media organisation, then please list the name of the parent company and the media organisation that the advertising payments were attributed to. Covid-19 awareness advertising payments refers to any advertising payments that were made by any department in the Irish Government to any media company that was used for the purpose of advertising covid-19 awareness. Covid-19 awareness advertising includes(but is not limited to) the following: Covid-19 virus information,Covid-19 health & safety information, information on Covid -19 related laws/ guidelines on different types of restrictions,Covid- 19 related health& safety information in any area of life/industry such as travelling/tourism or hospitality/dining, vaccination information, governments plans on lifting of /adding more restrictions, campaigns to encourage people to get vaccinated or to comply with Covid-19 related laws and guidelines, making people aware of all the resources available to deal with covid-19 including government Covid-19 related financial supports, testing information. 3.The total amount in funding payments that was distributed from the Irish Government/ Department of Public Expenditure & Reform to each newspaper(local/regional/national), radio station(local/national),TV station, online media outlet (such as YouTube) or any media organisation that received funding from the Irish Government in 2019. Funding refers to any payments from any section/department of the Irish Government and under any payments scheme/funding mechanism to a media company. However, Government advertising payments should not be included in these funding totals. Please give an individual listing of the total amount paid for each newspaper/radio station/tv station/online media outlet/media organisation in 2019. If payments were made to the parent company of a media organisation, then please list the name of the parent company and the media organisation that the funding was attributed to. 4.The total amount in funding payments that was distributed from the Irish Government/ Department of Public Expenditure & Reform to each newspaper(local/regional/national), radio station(local/national),TV station, online media outlet (such as YouTube) or any media organisation that received funding from the Irish Government in 2020. Funding refers to any payments from any section/department of the Irish Government and under any payments scheme/funding mechanism to a media company. However Covid-19 awareness advertising payments, Covid-19 Business Support Scheme payments or Pandemic Unemployment Payments should not be included in these funding totals. Please give an individual listing of the total amount paid for each newspaper/radio station/tv station/online media outlet/media organisation in 2020. If payments were made to the parent company of a media organisation, then please list the name of the parent company and the media organisation that the funding was attributed to. 5.The total amount in funding payments that was distributed from the Irish Government/ Department of Public Expenditure & Reform to each newspaper(local/regional/national), radio station(local/national),TV station, online media outlet (such as YouTube) or any media organisation that received funding from the Irish Government in 2021. Funding refers to any payments from any section/department of the Irish Government and under any payments scheme/funding mechanism to a media company. However Covid-19 awareness advertising payments, Covid-19 Business Support Scheme payments or Pandemic Unemployment Payments should not be included in these funding totals. Please give an individual listing of the total amount paid for each newspaper/radio station/tv station/online media outlet/media organisation in 2021. If payments were made to the parent company of a media organisation, then please list the name of the parent company and the media organisation that the funding was attributed to. 6.The total amount in Covid-19 Business Support Scheme payments or Pandemic Unemployment Payments (PUP) that the Irish Government/ Department of Public Expenditure & Reform paid to each newspaper(local/regional/national), radio station(local/national),TV station, online media outlet (such as YouTube) or any media organisation that received funding from the Irish Government in 2020. Covid-19 business Support Scheme payments refers to schemes such as ewss (employment wage subsidy scheme), crss (Covid restrictions support scheme) or any other Covid-19 Business Support payments. Please give an individual listing of the total amount paid to each newspaper/radio station/tv station/online media outlet/media organisation in 2020. If payments were made to the parent company of a media organisation, then please list the name of the parent company and the media organisation that the payments were attributed to. Please give a breakdown of the different types of payments for each media organisation receiving the payments. 7.The total amount in Covid-19 Business Support Scheme payments or Pandemic Unemployment Payments (PUP) that the Irish Government/ Department of Public Expenditure & Reform paid to each newspaper(local/regional/national), radio station(local/national),TV station, online media outlet (such as YouTube) or any media organisation that received funding from the Irish Government in 2021. Covid-19 business Support Scheme payments refers to schemes such as ewss (employment wage subsidy scheme), crss (Covid restrictions support scheme) or any other Covid-19 Business Support payments. Please give an individual listing of the total amount paid to each newspaper/radio station/tv station/online media outlet/media organisation in 2021. If payments were made to the parent company of a media organisation, then please list the name of the parent company and the media organisation that the payments were attributed to. Please give a breakdown of the different types of payments for each media organisation receiving the payments.