Written answers
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Department of Finance
Departmental Websites
Albert 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]
Paschal 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 |
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Total hits | 0 | 1 | 12 | 63 | 227 | 53 | 121 |
Date | Jan-25 | Feb-25 | Mar-25 | Apr-25 | May-25 | 1-11 June 2025 |
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Total hits | 148 | 164 | 132 | 133 | 188 | 113 |
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