Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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256. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the next PULSE system update is due to take place, as the last shut down for update was 7 December 2014. [17447/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Garda authorities that the PULSE system is upgraded periodically to support the introduction of new offences and changes to existing offences. These technical upgrades require a very short period of downtime and are carried out using well-proven processes designed to avoid impacting upon Garda operations. The last upgrade was deployed on 1st February, 2015 and there are other maintenance releases planned during quarter 2 and quarter 3 this year.