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Don't worry I am going to inquire into the breakdown of running costs of the site. To be honest it sounds like another PPARS, except the project is much smaller and easer to define, so the day to day running costs are lower. I am sure IBM have charged their standard Irish Government contract rates for the writing and maintaining the site. By the way the site does not get 4M hits a year, it brings in 4M euro in taxes. That is interesting is that Revenue have just brought ROS in house, which should save us a few bob. The era of the goverment outsourcing the development and running of websites to large multinationals seems to be starting to come to an end.
I had no problems in selecting the number and actual position of seats for the Chipmunks. As for the graphics, it has a huge number and they are contently being updated, while the motor tax site is relatively static and has less complex interaction with the user.
If you are genuinely interested in this issue, you might have to do a bit of digging yourself and see what is behind these costs. It might help though if you start comparing like with like. I really doubt if the Ormonde get 4 million unique visitors per annum? Funnily enough, the first page on the Ormonde site that I opened (http://www.onlinecinematickets.com/index.php?s=ORMONDE&p=tickets&perfCode=47463) is broken, with no option to enter the number of tickets required. The HTML has a huge number of failures on the WCAG validator, and there a loads of missing discriptive texts for the images used. Are you sure you want to hold this up as an example of shining private sector effeciency?
Don't worry I am going to inquire into the breakdown of running costs of the site. To be honest it sounds like another PPARS, except the project is much smaller and easer to define, so the day to day running costs are lower. I am sure IBM have charged their standard Irish Government contract rates for the writing and maintaining the site. By the way the site does not get 4M hits a year, it brings in 4M euro in taxes. That is interesting is that Revenue have just brought ROS in house, which should save us a few bob. The era of the goverment outsourcing the development and running of websites to large multinationals seems to be starting to come to an end.
I had no problems in selecting the number and actual position of seats for the Chipmunks. As for the graphics, it has a huge number and they are contently being updated, while the motor tax site is relatively static and has less complex interaction with the user.