Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 178: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount paid in each of the past five years in respect of IT services supplied to his Department, in tabular form; the nature of the service provided; if tenders were sought for each such contract; the successful company or person; the number of staff employed in his Department's IT sections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19523/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has two IT sections, one in Dublin, providing IT services to the central Department and associated agencies under the Justice Sector IT Shared Service, and a second in Killarney supporting the financial operations of the Department's Financial Shared Services.

Regarding the Departmental IT Division, Dublin, the main suppliers of IT services to the Department over the last five years have been:

PricewaterhouseCoopers Consortium (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Intertech, Connect Solutions/System Dynamics and Bluewave) (to end 2006);

IBM Consortium (IBM, Maxima, Bluewave, System Dynamics, Naked Objects Group, SirsiDynix and Sharptext).

Hewlett Packard (to end 2008);

Siemens;

Sogeti;

Microsoft (to end 2009).

Expenditure on IT services has been:

Staffing in the Department's Dublin IT Division averaged 25 during the period 2005 - 2008 but has fallen to an average of 18 since 2008. The number of staff of the Department and its agencies who have had their IT services provided and supported by the HQ IT Division has increased from 700 to 2200 over the period 2006 - 2010.

The Department's Financial Shared Services centre in Killarney provides a range of financial services to nine client organisations, including three Government Departments and six State Agencies. There are 8 staff in the IT Section. The main suppliers of IT services to Financial Shared Services have been: Accenture and Core International

Expenditure on IT services has been:

The services provided by all these companies to both IT functions have been procured in accordance with the normal procurement rules applicable to the public service.