Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One of my delegated responsibilities is that of e-government, and one of the biggest problems I have had since my appointment is migrating from the Oireachtas system to the departmental system. It is incredibly frustrating to have these problems. I have learned that the Oireachtas maintains some independence in respect of an ambition or drive to share services in this area. There is a great Office of the Government Chief Information Officer and a new person has been appointed to that role who has very ambitious plans for a government cloud, which we will move on this year. There is money allocated in the subheads for that. A challenge will be to bring the Oireachtas in as part of that, if that is the appropriate thing to do, but it has to be considered because there is a view that the pillars should be separate - for example, the services given to the Oireachtas versus the Department.