Eoin Hayes (Dublin Bay South, Social Democrats)
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1169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of all contracts, and the value of each, awarded to external IT consulting firms between 2020 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58324/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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IT external service provision is defined by the Department of Finance as where a person or organisation provides the services or the human/physical resources to meet the ICT needs of a Department. These requirements could include software development, network installation and management, infrastructure management, data centre hosting, managed services etc.

Details of all expenditure on IT External Services and IT Consultancy by the Department are published annually on: assets.gov.ie/static/documents/consultancy-and-it-external-service-provision-expenditure.pdf

I am satisfied that my Department has a robust governance process in place and that expenditure is closely monitored. Companies are only engaged for essential work, following a rigorous assessment of need and where the required competencies do not exist in-house.