Written answers
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Department of Health
Departmental Websites
10:00 pm
John Lyons (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health 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 e-Government objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37946/11]
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Information in relation to websites supported by my Department is set out in the following table.
| Website | Description | Avg Unique Monthly Visitors | Cost |
| www.doh.ie | Department of Health website | 31,000 approx | |
| www.cpsqa.ie | Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance | Unavailable | |
| Total cost for websites annually | These sites are managed as a single contract. | €9,100 * | |
| healthupdate.gov.ie | Dedicated website for the Press Office | 1,800 approx | €100, developed hosted and maintained in-house |
| patientsafetyfirst.gov.ie | Website of the Patient Safety Initiative | 443 approx | as above |
| www.nacd.ie | Website of the National Advisory Committee on Drugs - recently subsumed into the Dept. | Unavailable | Unavailable |
*Hosting - In the last 2 years, my Department has taken steps to streamline and reduce the number of websites it maintains. Both "healthupdate.gov.ie" and "patientsafetyfirst.gov.ie" were built using open-source technologies and are hosted on the Government Network infrastructure. It is intended to have the Department's main website redeveloped using similar technology which will reduce costs further.
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