Vol. 519 No. 4
79 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development the guidelines in place for regulating the type of material placed on his departmental websites; the further guidelines to regulate the links included on the website; and if the guidelines in this regard include party political or commercial material. [14017/00]
Recommended guidelines on web publication for public sector organisations were launched by An Taoiseach in November 1999 and are available on the Department of the Taoiseach's website. My Department is represented on a network of webmasters which, inter alia, aims to implement the guidelines across the public sector, including Government Departments.
Only material relating to the functions and policies of my Department are included on my Department's website. Requests for links with our site are considered on their merits and must satisfy the criteria that the site being linked contains material of general agricultural interest. Links with other Departments, State agencies, international institutions and other national ministries of agriculture have been created to assist visitors to our site. No material of a party political nature or of a commercial nature is contained on the site.
