Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances in which his Department used unlicensed software and/or lapsed licenced software in the past ten years to date; the associated expenditure on same to remedy the situation; and the software that was used. [33149/23]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The Department has a wide-ranging set of software products, from open source to proprietary, to subscription based, that in turn use a number of different licensing models. These all undergo strict governance. Some models of operation allow the Department flexibility over limited periods of time, e.g. when testing, piloting a product, or patching.

In understanding this question, and specifically the enquiry regarding costs of remediation, as referring to engagements with software suppliers or product owners that identified unpaid costs relating to a license, the Department is not aware of any such incidents in the last ten years.