Written answers
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Department of Finance
Information Society Fund
10:00 pm
Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the information society fund annually since 2000; the number and names of projects which have benefited from it since 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24090/09]
Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Information Society Fund was introduced in order to progress the eAgenda from 2000. Action plans were put in place to stimulate initiatives to provide better access for customers to services; to develop new ways for clients to interact with Government; to provide more streamlined and integrated services; to improve internal processes and to make significant improvements in the national telecommunications infrastructure. From 2001, a portion of the Fund was devolved to departmental votes and the remainder was held as a central fund under my Department's vote. The management of and accountability for devolved funding was the responsibility of the relevant Department.
The Fund ended in 2005 as planned. Departments and Offices now progress ICT initiatives through the normal business planning and budgetary process.
The following table sets out the total value of allocations under the Fund during the period 2000 to 2005:
| 2000€m | 2001€m | 2002€m | 2003€m | 2004€m | 2005€m | |
| Held in Centralised Fund | 32 | 17.7 | 10.4 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 9 |
| Devolved to Departmental Votes | 6.1 | 33.1 | 45.5 | 35.4 | 52.7 | 34.9 |
| Total Fund | 38.1 | 50.8 | 55.9 | 43.2 | 60.0 | 43.9 |
Eighteen projects were supported by the Central Fund in 2004 and these included:
| Department | Project |
| Agriculture & Food | Animal Import Notification Scheme |
| Central Statistics Office | IT Strategic Implementation Plan - Support for the implementation of CSO's e-public Service Strategy |
| Communications, Marine & Natural Resources | Knowledge Management Project |
| Netsecure System | |
| Environment | Mobhaile |
| Community & Voluntary Sector Needs Analysis | |
| Webhosting | |
| Finance | Public Service VPN |
| Govt Search engine | |
| e-Government Policy preparation | |
| e-Cabinet project | |
| Justice | Harmful use of the Internet |
| Land Registry | Digital Mapping |
| Marine Institute | Systems Hardware Acquisition |
| Social & Family Affairs | Client Records Data Quality Programme |
| Taoiseach | Island of Ingenuity Project |
| eGovernment Masters - preparatory seminars | |
| NCPP | |
25 projects were supported by the Central Fund in 2005 and these included:
| Department | Project |
| Communications, Marine & Natural Resources | Environment National Security Day |
| Community, Rural & Gaeltacht Affairs | Digital Community Project |
| Grangegorman Community Network Project | |
| Dublin Employment Pact | |
| Education | Dublin Inner-City Schools Computerisation Project (DISC) |
| Environment | ISDI Technical Research Project |
| Website Search & retrieval facility | |
| Small Areas Spatial Data Collection Project | |
| Proof of Concept for the Uptake of Small Areas Data Collection | |
| LGCSB Webhosting for 2005 | |
| Mobhaile 2005 | |
| Finance | HRMS Application- Service- Provider Project |
| HRMS Hardware/software | |
| VPN | |
| Justice | Internet Advisory Board |
| Law Reform Commission | Law Reform Commission e-Conveyancing project |
| Marine Institute | Coastal Zone Administration System |
| Corporate Vessel Register | |
| Marine Data Exchange and Query Service | |
| Revenue | ROS |
| Social & Family Affairs | Standard Authentication Framework Environment Programme (SAFE) |
| Reach | |
| Taoiseach | About the House |
| ICT Expo | |
| Island of Ingenuity Project |
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