Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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. [23450/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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In addition to the spend on IT consultancy services, the IT Unit of my Department engages contract staff and external service providers to provide specialist technical support and deliver specific projects where needed.

The total spend on external staff (consultancy, contractors and external service providers) was as follows: 2010€1,353,466; 2011€1,486,158; 2012€1,507,434; 2013€1,403,874; 2014€1,218,068; 2015 to date€485,832.