This year's overall winner of the Irish eGovernment Awards 2005 is the Land Registry Office, which now completes 3,300 business transactions per day online.
Four fifths of the Land Registry's business is ow done online with 769,000-paid transactions last year.
Speaking at the Awards presentation in Dublin last night Minister Tom Kitt said a huge paper mountain has been removed as more business migrates online.
He said 53% of the self-employed made returns online to the Revenue Commissioners in one month which meant 157,000 large paper tax returns have been eliminated from the system.
He said the Revenue Commissioners receive 20,000 online enquiries a day, with 3,000 hits a day on weekends.
The best Commercial eGovernment Award went to the National Concert Hall, the Best Education Award went to the University of Limerick and the Best State Body eGovernment award went to the Courts service.
The Irish eGovernment Awards 2005 are co-hosted by The Public Sector Times and web content firm Elucidate.
