Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 5 July 2023
161. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances in which his Department used unlicensed software and/or lapsed licenced software in the past ten years to date; the associated expenditure on same to remedy the situation; and the software that was used. [33149/23]
View answerThe Department has a wide-ranging set of software products, from open source to proprietary, to subscription based, that in turn use a number of different licensing models. These all undergo strict governance. Some models of operation allow the Department flexibility over limited periods of time, e.g. when testing, piloting a product, or patching.
In understanding this question, and specifically the enquiry regarding costs of remediation, as referring to engagements with software suppliers or product owners that identified unpaid costs relating to a license, the Department is not aware of any such incidents in the last ten years.
