Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
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Question 145: To ask the Taoiseach 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. [48210/10]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has 8 websites. Department of the Taoiseach Websites

*1 The www.forumoneurope.ie website is no longer active but will continue to be available as an information resource.

*2 There is no annual support and maintenance charge in respect of merrionstreet.ie. Ongoing technical maintenance and support of the site is being provided by staff in my Department's IT Unit with support from an external web services company on an "as needs" basis .

In addition to the above costs the total cost of hosting all eight sites for 2010 was €17,834.

Number of Unique Visits

National Economic and Social Development Office Websites The National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO), which includes its constituent body the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), comes under the aegis of my Department. There are five websites in operation in the NESDO.

In addition to the above costs the total cost of hosting all five sites for 2010 was €99.28.

Following the dissolution in April 2010 of two constituent bodies of the NESDO, the National Economic and Social Forum (NESF) and National Centre for Partnership and Performance (NCPP), NESDO is reducing its websites to one. This work is currently under way. This website will include both NESDO and NESC, and will also incorporate pages from the websites of the former bodies, the NESF and NCPP, as well as the Futures Ireland Website.

Number of Unique Visits