Departmental Websites

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Ceisteanna (178)

Liz McManus

Ceist:

228 Deputy Liz McManus asked the Minister for Finance 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. [48205/10]

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Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Finance (Deputy Brian Lenihan)

The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following tables:

Department of Finance

Website Address	Website Name	Maintenance Costs	Average unique visitors per month
		€
http://www.finance.gov.ie	Department of Finance Web site	5,800 plus VAT	150,000
http://www.budget.gov.ie	Publication of Annual Budget	Nil	50,000
http://www.gov.ie	Government of Ireland	Nil	50,000
http://www.bankinginquiry.gov.ie	Banking Inquiry website	Nil	916
http://www.training.gov.ie	Civil Service Training and Development	Nil	414
http://www.cmo.gov.ie	Office of the Chief Medical Officer	Nil	113
http://www.reviewbody.gov.ie	Review Body on Higher Remuneration	Nil	172
http://www.cspensions.gov.ie	Civil Service Pensions Calculator	Nil	1,382
http://www.benchmarking.gov.ie	Benchmarking Body	Nil	147
http://www.constructionprocurement.gov.ie	Information on Construction Procurement	Nil	2,184
http://www.cprm.gov.ie	Committee for Public Management Research	Nil	947
http://www.cspvg.gov.ie	Civil Service Performance Verification Group	Nil	83
http://www.decentralisation.gov.ie	Decentralisation publications	Nil	581
http://www.disability.gov.ie	Disability Information Website	Nil	Not recorded
http://www.personnelcode.gov.ie	Publication of Personal Code & Circulars	Nil	Not recorded
http://www.eprocnet.gov.ie	eProcurement Network Information	Nil	Not recorded
http://www.eustructuralfunds.ie	EU Structural Funds	Nil	Facility is under Develpement
http://www.foi.gov.ie	Information on Freedom of Information	Nil	Not recorded
http://www.ictprocurement.gov.ie	ICT Procurement	Nil	Not recorded
http://www.ict.gov.ie	ICT Control Website	Nil	Not recorded
http://www.peerreview.gov.ie	Information website on Peer Review Process	Nil	Not recorded
http://www.ppp.gov.ie	Public Private Partnership	Nil	Not recorded
http://www.psi.gov.ie	Re-use of Public Sector Information	Nil	Not recorded
http://www.cseas.gov.ie	Civil Service Employee Assistance Service	Nil	Not recorded
http://www.taxcommission.ie	Commission on Taxation	Nil	Facility is under Develpement
www.ndp.ie	National Development Plan Website	Nil

With the exception of where costs were supplied all other sites were hosted and maintained in-house.

Public Appointments Service

Website Address	Website Name	Maintenance Costs	Average unique visitors per month
www.publicjobs.ie	Public Appointments Service	€5,500	110,000

Commission for Public Service Appointments

Website Address	Website Name	Maintenance Costs	Average unique visitors per month
www.cpsa.ie	Commiission for Public Service Appointments	Approx €350 p.a.	Approx 1,200

Office of the Ombudsman

Website Address	Website Name	Maintenance Costs	Average unique visitors per month
www.oic.gov.ie	website of the office of the Information Commissioner	€2,638.00	8,516
www.ocei.gov.ie	Website of the Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information
www.ombudsman.gov.ie	Website of the Office of the Ombudsman	€3,956	5,192
www.sipo.gov.ie	Website of the Standards in Public Office Commission	€2,198	2,251

While development spend on websites may be subject to discussion with CMOD as part of that body's overarching role in monitoring IT expenditure generally, each of the institutions in the Office of the Ombudsman as shown above are fully independent bodies and none of them falls within the remit of the Minister for Finance per se.

National Treasury Management Agency

Website Address	Website Name	Maintenance Costs	Average unique visitors per month
www.ntma.ie	The National Treasury Management Agency	The five sites each cost €99.99 (exclusive of VAT) to maintain	22,302
www.nprf.ie	National Pensions Reserve Fund		2,821
www.stateclaims.ie	State Claims Agency		889
www.ndfa.ie	National Development Finance Agency		479
www.nama.ie	National Assets Management Agency		14,743

Note that the number of unique visitors is the number of unique visitors last November and that, in addition to the annual maintenance charge, there is also an annual domain registration charge of €330 (ex VAT) for all five sites together with a cost of €4,000 per annum for 24 hour security monitoring of all the websites and the provision of specialist web disability software to aid users with literacy and visual impairments in the use of the web sites.

Special EU Programmes Body

Website Address	Website Name	Maintenance Costs	Average unique visitors per month
www.seupb.org	Special EU Programmes Body	£93.97 + VAT (see note below)	1,035

**This figure has been generated using Google Analytics using figures from June to December 2010. It is based on a monthly average of 3,000 non bounce visits to the website where approximately 34.5% of these visits originate from new visitors.

Annual costs of maintaining the SEUPB website are negligible. Costs incurred relate to the registration of the necessary domain names. Information updates to the website are completed in house. Please note that the costs outlined above would have been funded jointly by the Department of Finance (DoF); the Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP); and the European Union and therefore do not reflect the total cost to DoF.

Revenue Commissioners

Website Address	Website Name	Maintenance Costs	Average unique visitors per month
www.revenue.ie	Revenue Commissioners Websites	€931,000	Unique visitors are not recorded, however the number of visits per month is 2.8 million (approx)
www.ros.ie
www.payeanytime.ie
Providing tax & customs information and secure online services such as filing tax returns, making tax payments, checking liabilities

Office of Public Works

Web address	Site Name	Annual maintenance cost if applicable	*Number of unique hits
		€
www.opw.ie	OPW main website	4,467	40,054
www.floodmaps.ie	Flooding information	141,407	10,098
Www.castletown.ieincludingwww.castletownhouse.ie	Heritage attraction — information and promotion	1,020	10,538
Www.farmleigh.ieincludingwww.farmleighgallery.ie	Heritage attraction — information and promotion	2,469	40,101
Www.flooding.ie	Heritage attraction — information and promotion	1,470	8,189
Www.irisoifigiuil.ie	Heritage attraction — information and promotion	2,469	10,946
Www.battleoftheboyne.ie	Heritage attraction — information and promotion	1,020	8,841
Www.blaskets.ie	Heritage attraction — information and promotion	1,020	Not available
Www.botanicgardens.ie	Heritage attraction — information and promotion		Not available
Www.heritageireland.ie	Heritage attraction — information and promotion	1,020.00	176,553
Www.kilkennycastle.ie	Heritage attraction — information and promotion	1,020.00	15,273
Www.peacemonument.ie	Site reserved for future development	1,020.00	Not applicable
Www.phoenixpark.ie	Heritage attraction — information and promotion	1,020.00	26,230
www.OPWAdmin.ie		1,020.00	Not available

*These figures are an aggregate total of unique hits for the last six months July to December 2010 using the Google Analytics tool deployed on these websites.

There are a number of sites where this tool has not been deployed yet and so no figures are available.