Consultancy Contracts

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 February 2014

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Questions (555)

Lucinda Creighton

Question:

555. Deputy Lucinda Creighton asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to his statement on 18 February 2014 that he had received a peer review report on the technical matters of relevance from a company (details supplied) to seek clarification of the technical information contained in the Verrimus report and an opinion with regard to the risks as identified and presented to GSOC, if he will detail the date when the company were contracted to undertake its peer review; the total number of contracted hours the company undertook in completing the peer review; the total cost of the peer review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9653/14]

Written answers

Minister for Justice and Equality

An IT security consultancy were retained on 14 February 2014 to provide an expert IT security opinion on the reports that GSOC had received from the security company it contracted. Their report was received on 18 February, 2014. The cost of this work was €5,623. I am not in a position to provide the Deputy with the number of hours the work entailed as to do so would divulge their hourly rate which is commercially sensitive information.