Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 608: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of financial management systems in place in his Department; the persons who provided his Department with these systems; the cost of maintaining the software; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5995/08]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has a single fully integrated financial management system, the Oracle e-Business Suite, which services the requirements of both the Department and the Defence Forces. The system includes a number of modules such as Purchasing, Inventory, Accounts Payable and Receivable, General Ledger and Asset Management. Each module requires software update and product support licences while the associated technical architecture also requires database update and support licences. The overall financial management system was provided by Oracle EMEA Ltd and is licensed with that Company. The annual cost of maintaining the application software and database relating to the application is of the order of €0.736m including VAT.