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Dail Éireann — 2022-11-16
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I will come back to him in that regard. It was a fair point.
In response to Deputy Bacik, during Covid, an assistant secretary in my Department oversaw the Covid situation and co-ordinated with other Departments. Advice was taken from professionals in the field about the type of advertisements and other such issues. Research was done by the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, and other such bodies as to the best type of advertisements. There are professionals in that field and there is no political involvement in terms of either the content of advertisements or how they are designed.
I am meeting with the Irish Thalidomide Association tomorrow morning.

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