Information Technology Package for Housing Departments

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25 October 2005	Environment	IT Package for Housing Deps.

Ciarán Cuffe Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress of the integrated information technology package for local authority housing departments being developed by the computer services board.

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Following initial work on business process mapping and standard coding methods, a two-phase approach has been adopted for the integrated housing project. Consequently, an interim package to meet some of the housing needs of local authorities is being rolled out to all authorities, with the exception of Dublin City Council, which owing to the scale of its operations, has appointed a company to implement a system to meet its needs. A tender for a system to meet the complete housing needs of all other local authorities was issued earlier this year and is being evaluated. Following the evaluation of this tender, my Department will be consulting with the Department of Finance and decisions will then be taken on progressing the project.

Ciarán Cuffe is a TD for the Dún Laoghaire Dáil Constituency. Ciarán can be contacted at Dáil Éireann, Kildare Street, Dublin 2 or 96 Patrick Street, Dún Laoghaire Tel. 284 6060 or 618 3082, Fax 618 4341, Email Ciaran CiaranCuffe.com