Written answers

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Department of Finance

Departmental Websites

Photo of Albert DolanAlbert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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298. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if so, whether any visits have been recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT; and to provide the monthly number of such visits, if recorded, for each of the past 12 months, in tabular form. [32499/25]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department's web presence on Gov.ie is managed by the Office of Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO). OGCIO employs analytic tools for Gov.ie centrally and can provide breakdowns to individual Departments on request.

OGCIO have advised that visits to the Department of Finance web presence on Gov.ie recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT, are as follows:

Date 11-30 June 2024 Jul-24 Aug-24 Sep-24 Oct-24 Nov-24 Dec-24
Total hits 0 1 12 63 227 53 121
Date Jan-25 Feb-25 Mar-25 Apr-25 May-25 1-11 June 2025
Total hits 148 164 132 133 188 113
OGCIO have advised that in late 2024 the government analytics provider changed for operational reasons. Therefore the data for the period 11 June 2024 to 30 November 2024 is from Google Analytics 4 (GA4). The data supplied for the period from 1 December 2024 to 11 June 2025, is from the current analytics provider, Matomo.

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