Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 18 December 2014
226. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49164/14]
View answerThe information requested by the Deputy can be found in the following table. The IT consultancy engagements concerned relate to quarterly independent assessments of the Department’s IT security measures as required for EU accreditation purposes and biannual independent security review of the Department's IT infrastructure. An independent review of all the Geographical Information based computer systems (GIS) in my Department was also carried out as this is an integral part of the effective and efficient administration of our EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) based payment schemes. In addition, my Department has a number of contracts in place for contractors in roles for ICT infrastructure technical support and for contract programming resources, which have been tendered at various points since March 2011, using open EU tendering procedures.
The total amount spent on external IT consultants in each year is as follows:
|
- |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 to date |
|
€ |
74,279 |
73,597 |
48,387 |
42,152 |
18,382 |
