Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 87: To ask the Minister for Transport the cloud computing systems that are in use in his Department; the safeguards that are in place regarding personal information and public data on those systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8639/10]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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There is no agreed formal definition of cloud computing. However the term is often used to encompass systems which allow organisations to outsource computer applications used to manipulate and store data. My Department does not use such systems.