228 Deputy Liz McManus asked the Minister for Finance the number and cost of each website that falls under his remit; the number of unique visitors per month to each website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48205/10]

The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the following tables:

With the exception of where costs were supplied all other sites were hosted and maintained in-house.

While development spend on websites may be subject to discussion with CMOD as part of that body's overarching role in monitoring IT expenditure generally, each of the institutions in the Office of the Ombudsman as shown above are fully independent bodies and none of them falls within the remit of the Minister for Finance per se.

Note that the number of unique visitors is the number of unique visitors last November and that, in addition to the annual maintenance charge, there is also an annual domain registration charge of €330 (ex VAT) for all five sites together with a cost of €4,000 per annum for 24 hour security monitoring of all the websites and the provision of specialist web disability software to aid users with literacy and visual impairments in the use of the web sites.

**This figure has been generated using Google Analytics using figures from June to December 2010. It is based on a monthly average of 3,000 non bounce visits to the website where approximately 34.5% of these visits originate from new visitors.

Annual costs of maintaining the SEUPB website are negligible. Costs incurred relate to the registration of the necessary domain names. Information updates to the website are completed in house. Please note that the costs outlined above would have been funded jointly by the Department of Finance (DoF); the Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP); and the European Union and therefore do not reflect the total cost to DoF.

*These figures are an aggregate total of unique hits for the last six months July to December 2010 using the Google Analytics tool deployed on these websites.

There are a number of sites where this tool has not been deployed yet and so no figures are available.