Comments on: Making e-Government Work

By: Recommendations from the Global Irish Economic Forum « Brendan Hughes, talking about the Internet in business and society in Ireland

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:21:00 +0000

[...] smart economy documents, in particular the Knowledge Society Strategy report that I talked about here in July, were broadly [...]

By: Mistletoe and Wine – 2009 Review « Brendan Hughes, talking about the Internet in business and society in Ireland

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:34:32 +0000

[...] August as the scale of the inefficiencies with our public sector became evermore clear the role of e-government in helping to address those inefficiencies crystalised, for me at least. The ante was also upped on [...]

By: Genealogy Guy

Genealogy Guy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:08:41 +0000

It would be nice story if http://www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie was e-Government at work. But they are a private company taking advantage of e-Government not being put in place.

GRO Ireland look after the registration of births, marriages and deaths in Ireland. They have a website (http://www.groireland.ie) but no online ordering facility. At one stage they thought they were going to have an online facility by 2005, but that idea has disappeared in the mists of time. At present, they do not recommend any other agency for online ordering.

http://www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie saythat they are “Ireland’s only Official Irish Certificate Online Service”

Another Irish site site, http://www.irishcerts.ie, says they are ” Ireland’s Premier Official on-line Certificate Service”

There are even sites in the UK providing Irish Certificates in the same way. Just google ‘Irish Birth Certificates’ . But none of them are e-Government.

Regards
Genealogy Guy