Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014
10:00 am
Mr. Joe Lewins:
We are indeed. We are going to leverage efficiencies from broadband as well. That will help us. IT in 2013 would not have been fit for purpose as it was five to eight years old. We have to replace it. We have a choice point as to whether we spend capital to replace all the servers or go with a hosted, managed service. After a tender process, the latter was awarded to Eircom. Again, although it hits the profit and loss account as opposed to being a capital expenditure, it was the right decision. It gives us a great deal of security. One hears about hacking and we have third parties to manage all of that for us. It has more flexibility and we are able to expand as and when we can and everything is now in the cloud. I hope to leverage savings from this going forward as the market catches up and competitiveness increases.
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