John Lyons (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of all websites under his remit; the annual cost of maintaining each website; the average number of hits per month on each site for the past year; his views on whether these websites can be rationalised to bring about cost savings without compromising eGovernment objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37945/11]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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My Department currently operates six main websites for which details, numbers of unique visitors per month and projected costs are set out below for the year 2011. Earlier this year following completion of a procurement exercise, my Department embarked on a programme of work to rationalise and consolidate its websites with a focus on cost efficiencies, consistency with eGovernment objectives and enhancing services to customers. New websites developed under this programme will be launched during 2012. My Department is also leveraging the infrastructure hosting services available from one of the Government Hosting Centres as a further means of containing costs for website services.

In addition to the Department's sites, the Certificate of Irish Heritage programme website is managed by FEXCO under licence from the Department. All costs relating to the development and maintenance of the website are met by FEXCO, with the exception of the domain name registration.

The costs set out in the table below are for all Department sites and include support, maintenance, hosting and domain registration services as projected for 2011.