Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

——or what he had for breakfast, if he opened any pubs recently or if he went to Croke Park or Tolka Park. This is the acid test of the strategic management initiative and I am asking the Taoiseach if it is not difficult to reconcile his praise for the performance of the initiative with the lapses that still occur in various Departments. I have instanced the Departments of Education and Science and Health and Children. Is it the case in the Department of Health and Children that it is not the acute day to day pressure it is under — as I am sure it is — but this has been known to the Department since 2001 at a minimum? The Travers report for all I know, I have not read it, will show that it was known to the Department.

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