Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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758. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is preparing his Department to adapt to and make maximum use of next generation technologies in information and communications to better enhance the interaction of his Department with the citizen and the internal functioning of his Department; if he intends to conduct a risk analysis in respect of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36111/13]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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My Department keeps abreast of technical developments in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and, where appropriate, aims to use these developments to satisfy the needs of both the internal and external customers of the Department.  My Department understands the potential of ICT, and fully embraces suitable technologies to enhance the interaction with external customers and to provide efficiencies within my Department.

A standard element of any evaluation of technology within the Department is to carry out a risk analysis of that technology prior to a decision on deployment.