Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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48. To ask the Minister for Finance the top ten websites visited by officials and political staff annually in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 via hardware provided to them by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4023/20]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I have been advised by the Department's ICT providers, that the full remit of data requested is not available due to the voluminous nature of the data produced and the limited storage capacity of the web filtering appliances in use. However, the data that is available in response to the Deputy's request is presented below in tabular form.

The top ten most visited websites by staff working in the Department of Finance from 1st July 2019 to 31st December 2019 and from 1st January 2020 to 5th May 2020 are indicated below.

01 January - 05 May 2020

01 July - 31 December 2019

Please note that sites which operate in the background unbeknownst to users which are deemed system sites e.g. advertising sites, tracking sites, content delivery networks etc. have been excluded.