Departmental Advertising
Dail Éireann — 2020-10-06
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

There was a more fundamental issue about level 3 and level 5. Those were the issues yesterday.
To respond to Deputy Tóibín's points, I am perplexed by the suggestion. There is no media monitoring of Government criticism by anybody in the Government Information Service or the Department of the Taoiseach. There is no monitoring of any criticism by political parties. That does not happen. No public servant or anybody else is doing this type of work. The idea that advertisements are being put out to stop the bad news sounds extraordinary and bizarre to me and I certainly do not believe that is the case.

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Sitting date: 2020-10-06