Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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461. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by her Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23456/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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This expenditure by my Department relates predominantly to security and audit consultancy work and penetration testing carried out by external IT consultants for the years 2010-2015. This is broken as follows:

2010 - €0

2011 - €0

2012 - €25,601

2013 - €35,383

2014 - €57,299

2015 - €1,800