Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 416: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the savings that have been made in her Department through the use of open source software packages and generic consumables; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39929/10]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has not deployed open source software packages for general use to date. However, the Department's Information Technology Unit has been assessing some open source office productivity suite software for potential use. Furthermore, the National Archives of Ireland has deployed open source operating system software on some of its infrastructure associated with the recent online 1901-1911 Census project. Regarding the use of generic consumables, my Department does not currently retain stocks of such consumables for use but has done so in the past.