Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

We have carefully considered the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. Before he began his report, we comprehensively examined the deficiency in this system. The system was initiated to deal with one particular problem on the payroll of the health boards, and began with four health boards. It moved on to take in human resources and approximately 6,500 different systems. The project did not have the management or the coherent structure to do this. Like many things in life, if nothing had been done it would have been better, and they could have let an old manual system full of inefficiencies lie there.

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