Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

1134. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development 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. [4029/20]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

My Department's ICT managed service is provided by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform through the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO). The OGCIO implements a multi-layered approach to cyber security and to protecting ICT systems, infrastructures and services, and operates an Internet Acceptable Usage Policy on my Department’s behalf.

The information sought by the Deputy is set out below. My Department is informed by the OGCIO that for technical reasons the information sought is only available for the period from 1st July 2019 to 26th March 2020. Furthermore, it is not possible to provide this data on the basis of different categories of staff.

The websites most frequently visited using Department hardware in the period July to December 2019 were:

gov.ie, rte.ie, irishtimes.com, independent.ie, irishexaminer.ie, thejournal.ie, sportinglife.com, boards.ie, amazon.co.uk and corkcoco.ie.

The websites most frequently visited using Department hardware in the period January to March 2020 were:

thejournal.ie, irishtimes.com, independent.ie, gov.ie, rte.ie, irishexaminer.ie, sportinglife.com, amazon.co.uk, boards.ie and Ryanair.com.