Minister Howlin launches new website portal which provides central access to more than 300 online public services
30th June 2011
The Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform, Mr. Brendan Howlin T.D., today launched a new portal which provides details of and access to over 300 public services that are available online. On launching the portal the Minister stated “The Government is committed to transforming the way in which services are delivered and to provide ease of access to public services. In this day and age people expect to be able to organise most of their affairs on the internet, and to be able to tailor those services to their needs, at a place and time that suits them. This portal is a one stop shop that allows people access to a broad range of services, both informational and transactional, and it provides a useful overview to people of the extensive amount of public services available online.
The Minister added “The use of technology and moving to a more online focused public service offers us an excellent opportunity to radically rethink the delivery of services, and to maximise our resources. It is essential that we continue to do more with less and at the same time, we must also ensure that services to the public are maintained and improved to the greatest extent possible. Departments have been asked as part of the ongoing Comprehensive Review of Expenditure to look at options for moving away from traditional, cost intensive channels of public service provisions, in favour of eGovt options.
This Government is committed to providing a more integrated public service and my Department is developing a new eGovernment Strategy, which will drive this agenda.”
The portal is available at: www.gov.ie. In order to make it more user friendly the listing of services can be limited to those that allow you to apply for, pay for, complain about or just find various services.
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