Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 285: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent to date on developing an on-line application process for birth, death and marriage certificates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11971/06]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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As part of the public services broker programme, the application for life event certificates, ALEC, service has been developed as an on-line service by REACH in partnership with the General Register Office, GRO. The ALEC service enables customers anywhere in the world to purchase life event certificates on-line using their credit cards. The certificates are delivered via the postal services to the customer's address. The service includes a "shopping cart" capability whereby many certificates may be purchased in a single transaction. In addition the public services broker provides a "history file" in which customers can keep a record of previous purchases. The cost to REACH of developing the ALEC software was €68,861. It is currently waiting deployment as a live service to the customers of the GRO.