The importance of the Y2K bug for the Irish Government and the country's critical utilities is clear from the answers given by the ESB, Telecom Eireann and CMOD, the Dept. of Finance's Centre for Management and Organisational Development to 10 fundamental Y2K questions.
These questions are a modified form of Ed Yourdon's "10 questions to ask companies", and are used with his permission; Yourdon is the coauthor of TimeBomb 2000, and a distinguished systems analyst, programmer and computer guru.
The original questions (put considerably more bluntly), and explanations for those questions are on Yourdon's Webpage at www.yourdon.com.
For the first five questions see Computimes of 22nd June; today we ask the remaining five.
Those answering the questions are:
ESB: - Gerry Condon, programme manager for the ESB's overall Y2K programme:
TE: (Telecom Eireann) - Dave Murray, programme director for AD2000 across the Telecom Eireann group of companies:
CMOD: (Department of Finance) - Tim Duggan, secretary to the Government's interdepartmental Y2K monitoring committee: