Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if representations have been made to his Department by proprietary software vendors; if so, the companies concerned; the number of such contacts each year since 2011; and the nature of the representations made. [30320/14]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer in my Department is responsible for a wide range of ICT related activities. As part of these activities, OGCIO officials are in regular informal contact with representatives of a wide variety of national and international software vendors.

A number of formal representations were received to my Office as follows: 

These representations were passed to the OGCIO for consideration.