Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 231: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources 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 there were tenders 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. [19514/10]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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The information requested in relation to IT Services provided to my Department since 2007, and the average full time equivalent staff numbers for the same period is provided below in tabular format.

Outsourcing has given the Information Systems Division in my Department access to a large pool of highly skilled people and companies that were brought in and let go according to project timelines, providing a much larger delivery capability than the number of people employed in the Division could provide on their own.

In the instances where there was no tender competition, support was being provided for proprietary technologies, the service was being supplied centrally, or the value of the contract was very small.