Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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416. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost per year for the past three years for the storage of data and-or files on cloud storage or third party servers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9412/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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The cost to my Department for the last three years for a cloud based application are as set out in the following table. This is a feature rich management application that also contains data and is cloud based.

My Department carefully considers all the options before placing data in any location taking various factors into consideration including amongst other things security, value for money and vendor capture.