The student maintenance grant is the main source of financial help available from the Irish State for students in full-time higher education undergraduate, postgraduate and Post-Leaving Certificate (PLC) courses.
Read more: Ireland: Student maintenance grant applications can now be made online
These pages will be under the banner 'Healthupdate' and are directly accessible at www.healthupdate.gov.ie or from the homepage of the Department's website www.dohc.ie.
The pages will include information from various sources including PQs, adjournment debates, HSE briefs, speeches, press statements, etc, according to the Department.
Read more: Ireland: Department of Health sets up new web info area
The study showed however that some sectors of Irish industry are ahead of EU averages for ICT use.
It also revealed that EU spending on ICT research is less than half of US levels.
By 2020, the European Commission wants all households to have access to high-speed broadband, as part of its "Digital Agenda". By 2015, all patients could have access to their online medical records wherever they are in the EU.
This strategy, she said, would bring "great benefits" to Irish citizens by making smart use of limited public resources.
Ms Kroes was speaking yesterday at the Telecommunications and Internet Federation (TIF) conference in Dublin Castle.
Read more: Ireland: Take digital path to growth, EU's Kroes tells Government
The Department of Social Protection is attempting to shorten dole queues by allowing jobseekers to certify their unemployment through their mobile phones.
It is hoped that new mobile phone technology, which is costing €1,033,346, will ease the pressure which social welfare offices are experiencing because of the rapidly lengthening dole queues.
Read more: Ireland: 'Dial-a-dole' system due for rollout by year-end
