Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 322: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the websites that are run by his Department and each of its agencies; the date on which each became live; if the sites are kept updated; the cost of each site to the State to date; and if he will provide the information in tabular readable form. [31062/07]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy may be aware that my Department recently launched an upgraded website (www.dfa.ie) to replace its previous site. This initiative includes upgrading the websites of all our Missions throughout the world based on a standard template consistent with the Department's site.

Nine such Mission sites are currently operational. These include our Embassies in Paris (www.embassyofireland.fr) and in Berlin (www.embassyofireland.de). The programme to rollout Mission sites will continue into 2008. The Department maintains a separate site for Irish Aid. All sites are updated at appropriate intervals.

The cumulative costs of the relevant sites are as follows: