Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills 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. [4021/20]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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My Department uses specialised security software and associated hardware to monitor internet requests, log activity, apply internet content filters, and report on browsing history on the corporate desktop only. Internet activity is recorded only on devices inside the Department's networks and not on devices outside the Department's networks e.g. Smartphones.

The production servers only retain logs for the last six months of activity online.

The top ten websites visited in the period 1^stof September 2019 to the 6^thof March 2020 are listed below. The ranking is based on hits captured which include actual visits and embedded links from multiple sources such as links to advertisements and web counters. It should be noted that most web pages contain content from multiple sources (social networking applications, advertisement servers, streaming video sites, image hosting services, etc.).

Top ten websites visited 1^stof September 2019 to the 6^thof March 2020