Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 February 2017
224. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the cost per year for the past three years for the storage of data and or files on cloud storage or third party servers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9404/17]
View answerThe cost per year for storage of data and or files on cloud storage or third party servers is set out in the following table:
|
2014 |
2015 |
2016 |
|
129,746.70 |
110,022.85 |
159,681 .25 |
The main costs relate to hosting charges associated with my Department’s Geographic Information Systems. This includes cloud based servers, databases and hosting as well as data storage. Since May 2013, certain costs are charged on a Shared Service basis with the Heritage Division of the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Their element of hosting costs is not included in the table.
