Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 January 2010
211 Deputy Brian Hayes asked the Minister for Transport the number of websites his Department provides; the annual cost of maintaining each site; the number of unique visits each site received for 2009, or for a part of 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2246/10]
View answerDetails of publicly facing websites provided by my Department, approximate annual maintenance costs and statistics on unique site visits can be found in the table.
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Website |
Site Reference |
Number of unique visits in 2009 |
Annual maintenance cost (inc VAT) |
|
€ |
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Department of Transport |
transport.ie |
134,089 (Mar 09-Dec 09) |
|
|
Road Haulage |
roadhaulage.ie |
Not Available |
|
|
Air Accident Investigation Unit |
aaiu.ie |
Not Available |
12,000 |
|
Irish Coastguard |
irishcoastguard.ie |
Not Available |
|
|
Safety On the Water |
safetyonthewater.ie |
Not Available |
|
|
Online motor tax |
motortax.ie |
4,338,186 |
|
|
motarchain.ie |
8,411 |
523,000 |
|
|
Change of vehicle ownership |
motortrans.ie |
373,819 |
|
|
Transport 21 |
transport21.ie |
78,780 |
900 |
|
Sustainable transport |
smartertravel.ie |
1,185 (Nov 09-Jan 10) |
3,000 |
|
National Bike week |
bikeweek.ie |
14,861 (May 09-Dec 09) |
6,000 |
In line with the Government's eGovernment Strategy for 2010, my Department will continue to improve the provision of information via its websites, investigate the possibilities of delivering additional online services to the general public and utilise internet technologies to gain efficiencies in the running of the Department. The online motor taxation site, motortax.ie, has proved particularly successful with the general public and during 2009, more than 47% of those transactions eligible to do so, were conducted via the website. Further enhancements are planned for delivery in 2010.
