Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund
9:00 am
Mr. Mark Griffin:
The software licences came up for renewal in that year. We had to take one big one, in particular, relating to ArcGIS which amounted to €684,000 on its own. There were other IT projects which could only be provided by a particular entity.
To return to climate action, we had to go to particular companies which had the expertise on climate modelling. That work amounted to €560,000.