Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 September 2021
261. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he and or his special advisors and or officials use or have used services (details supplied) to communicate in the past 18 months. [43077/21]
View answerI wish to advise the Deputy neither I nor my advisors use either of the named applications. This is also the position with respect to members of the Department’s Management Board.
A number of other Department officials do use one of the applications, Slack. The purpose of this application is to facilitate quick updates between external partners and internal teams on live ICT issues. In addition, as part of research conducted into secure solutions to enable continuity of communications in the event corporate communication tools were compromised, my ICT team did make limited use of Signal. All records are retained and searchable under FOI.
