290. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Defence the amount her Department has spent on recruitment advertisements for the Defence Forces in the past 12 months, broken down by whether the cost was directly associated with advertising, design, or consultancy fees, in tabular form. [57958/26]

I am advised by the Defence Forces that the expenditure incurred by the Defence Forces on recruitment advertising in the past 12 months is as set out in the table below. The costs are broken down between advertising, design and consultancy fees.