193 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department carried out advertising campaigns during the course of 2010 to promote policies or programmes being implemented by those agencies or by his Department; the details of the campaign or relevant programme; the cost of advertising in publications, broadcast advertising, online advertising, outdoor advertising and other forms of advertising and consultancy or production costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3429/11]

194 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance if he has carried out, during the course of 2010, advertising campaigns to promote any policies or programmes being implemented by his Department; the name of the campaigns or programmes; the total cost of advertising in publications, broadcast advertising, outdoor advertising and consultancy or production costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3444/11]

I propose to take Questions Nos. 193 and 194 together.

No payments were made during the course of 2010 in respect of advertising campaigns to promote any policies or programmes being implemented by my Department. The detail in relation to agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of my Department is set out below.

In accordance with European Commission Regulation (EC) 1828 2006, the SEUPB is required to implement a Communications Plan. This plan sets out in detail how the SEUPB shall provide information on and publicise the operations of the European Territorial Co-operation Programmes PEACE III and INTERREG IVA in the 2007-2013 Programming Period. In 2010, the SEUPB had a total budget of €227,000 to implement activities as outlined within the Communications Plan.

Part of the Communications Plan budget in 2010 was allocated towards the placement of advertorials. Such placements were commissioned on an ad hoc basis throughout the year within specialist publications that would not normally accept press releases. Advertorials placed in 2010 are outlined in Table 1 below.

In addition, the SEUPB is also required to place Public Notices in a range of publications to announce the opening and closing of calls for applications under each of the Programmes. Details of such Public Notices are also provided in Table 1 below.

The costs outlined above are funded jointly between the Department of Finance, the European Commission and the Department of Finance and Personnel (NI).

NTMA umbrella

An Post and the Prize Bond Company Limited are agents of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) for the sale of the range of State Savings products.

In 2010 An Post and the Prize Bond Company incurred the following advertising costs:

Office of the Revenue Commissioners

I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the following table contains the details requested by the Deputy.

*2010 only.

The Office of the Ombudsman, the Valuation Office, the State Laboratory, the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Office of the Appeals Commissioner, the Public Appointments Service, the Commission for Public Service Appointments and the National Asset Management Agency did not make any such payments in 2010.

In the time available the Office of Public Works was unable to provide the information requested. The information is being collated by that office and will issue directly to the Deputy.