Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 January 2011
511 Deputy Liz McManus asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number and cost of each website that falls under his remit; the number of unique visitors per month to each website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48208/10]
View answerMy Department provides centralised support for 23 websites — related to the work of the department and some bodies under its remit — developed under its IT Shared Service model. Details of visits are not recorded for all sites but figures recorded in 2010 indicate that there was an average of 38,534 unique visits per month to my Department's main site (www.justice.ie) and that there was an average of 47,803 unique visits per month to the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (www.inis.gov.ie).
Hosting and related charges for these sites in 2010 came to €13,025. Other costs, such as staff time spent maintaining the site content which forms part of the day to day work of the Department, are not separately accounted for.
Websites are an essential communications tool for any modern organisation in providing essential customer services. As part of the Shared Service model, websites are developed and maintained based on reusable templates. This approach has led to a reduction in the cost and effort of setting up and supporting websites.
