Written answers
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Department of Transport
Departmental Websites
2:30 pm
Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context
Question 477: To ask the Minister for Transport 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. [48212/10]
Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context
Details of publicly facing websites provided by my Department, approximate annual costs and averaged amount of unique site visits per month can be found in the table below.
| Website | Site Reference | Number of unique visits per month (approx) | Annual Cost(inc VAT) |
| Department of Transport | transport.ie | 11,500In December 2010 number was 133,000 | €12,200 (This figure covers the first five sites) |
| Road Haulage | roadhaulage.ie | Not available | |
| Air Accident Investigation Unit | aaiu.ie | Not available | |
| Irish Coastguard | irishcoastguard.ie | Not available | |
| Safety On the Water | safetyonthewater.ie | Not available | |
| Online motor tax | motortax.ie | 344,000 | €300,000(This figure covers four sites) |
| motarchain.ie | 650 | ||
| Change of vehicle ownership | motortrans.ie | 35,000 | |
| End of Life Vehicle | motorelv.ie | 500 | |
| Transport 21 | transport21.ie | 7,100 | €774 |
| Sustainable Transport | smartertravel.ie | 1,182 | €1,735 |
| National Bike Week | bikeweek.ie | 2,364 | €13,049 |
In 2010 the motortax.ie site processed 2 million applications and collected over €438 million. This represents almost 43% of overall motor tax receipts
The figure for unique visits per month for transport.ie refers to January to October 2010. During the severe weather in November 2010 this figure was over 62,000 and in December 2010 climbed to just over 133,000.
In 2010 bikeweek.ie was upgraded to enable event organisers submit details of some 400 events directly to the site and allow management of the Bike Week Facebook page which has attracted over 1,200 followers.
No comments