Written answers

Tuesday, 21 March 2006

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Grant Payments

8:00 pm

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 448: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the funding allocated to a group (details supplied) since its formation; the expected timeframe for fulfilling its mandate; if it is on schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10016/06]

Photo of Séamus BrennanSéamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The Reach unit reports to my Department and is a central piece of infrastructure for e-government in Ireland. Funding for the project was provided by the information society fund through a ring-fenced subhead in my Department's Vote.

Total expenditure on Reach to the end of 2005 was just under €37 million and the estimate for 2006 is €11.5 million. A number of services have been developed by Reach, including the public service broker which is a system for providing standardised access for services to customers and between Departments for early automatic notification of births, deaths and marriages to a range of agencies, and for exchange of other information between Departments and secure identification and authentication services using my Department's public service identity, PSI, system.

The current phase of development of the project is due to conclude by April or May 2006, at which stage the infrastructure will be in place for additional services to be made available via the public service broker. Discussions are taking place in respect of the future structure and operation of the project.

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