Results 6,721-6,740 of 10,459 for speaker:Bertie Ahern

Freedom of Information. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: No. All of the agencies under my Department are covered. I do not think it would make any difference, with the exception of the National Archives Act 1986. Section 8(4) of that Act is the only section we withheld and it is the only section that would cause difficulty.

Freedom of Information. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I will finish with Deputy Sargent's question. Over 1% have been investigated by the Information Commissioner since the Act was introduced almost nine years ago.

Freedom of Information. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Yes, in my Department. That is 1% of the 1,200 that happened in the period. The Ceann Comhairle has ruled on other agencies. On Deputy Rabbitte's question, while there was a slight decrease for a while in the number of requests in my Department, they went back up again. There was an increase of about 30% last year. There was a slowdown in the use of the legislation for a considerable...

Office of the Attorney General. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive, together. In 1996, at the request of the then Attorney General, his office took on the task of preparing an electronic Irish Statute Book, eISB. The first release in CD-ROM format was in December 1998 in respect of the Acts for 1922 to 1997. Since then, the office arranged for the publication of the eISB on the Internet in September 2000,...

Office of the Attorney General. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The work on the full CD-ROM was finished in 1998. The error was only discovered last year by an official working in the section and it then took the office some time to ascertain the precise scale of the problem. This has all been done. Obviously, the officials have been back and forth with Juta Publishing Limited, the South African firm which did all of the work on this. In the main,...

Office of the Attorney General. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The process will not start until January. However, I understand that if the problem is identified, it may not take too long to sort it out.

Office of the Attorney General. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not wish to go back over the entire history of this project, which has been going on for the past decade. As I said, the first release of the CD-ROM format was in December 1998 in respect of Acts from 1922 to 1997. As Deputy Sargent stated, we do not use our technology as the authoritative legislative base. I do not think anybody does that, other than perhaps——

Office of the Attorney General. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: ——Tasmania.

Office of the Attorney General. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Perhaps in the long term it is what we should do, but people are still using the Acts as they are. Since then, the Office of the Attorney General has arranged for the publication of the Statute Book on the Internet for the past six years and it has been updated on three occasions. Therefore, there have been companies other than the South African firm involved in it. The more recent updates...

Office of the Attorney General. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not consider it is waste. The cost of €1 million to put on CD-ROM all our legislation since the foundation of the State, from 1922 to 1997, including the chronological tables, is not great in technology terms. Unfortunately, there was an error in it which must be rectified and the project team has been working on that. It has moved on to examine many other successful aspects of the...

Office of the Attorney General. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: As regards Deputy Rabbitte's first question, during the update process of the statutory instrument project it was established that a systematic error had occurred on a selection of data contained in the Acts and statutory instruments. The error was caused by the insertion of hyper-links, or direct clickable links, to reference parts of the Acts or statutory instruments during the process of...

Office of the Attorney General. (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I am advised there is no such difficulty because it was not seen as the authentic version of the legislation and this is the case in common law countries. While the intention is to have each Act since 1922 stored in the correct form, as passed in this House, along with chronological tables and statutory instruments, it is not the authoritative version used in judgments in this and other...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: This had not been brought to my attention until I watched the RTE report last week which indicated that on the weekend before last a number of women were, as described by Deputy Kenny, left waiting in the Rotunda sexual assault treatment unit, and were told to wait in their clothes for a prolonged period in poor facilities. I raised the matter with the HSE and asked for an explanation of the...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I will not get into the two sides of the story because I do not think it would do much for either side. The fact is that it should not happen.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not want to get into all the sides of the argument. I was shown what happened over an enormous amount of weekends. There was a problem on a certain weekend and then a campaign was lined up around that weekend. The information I received related to the number of victims presenting for examination and treatment. I was told there is a sexual assault reporting rate of nine for every...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not roster doctors in the Rotunda Hospital.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not intend to get into why a doctor was not available. Those involved in the lobby group in this regard, who seem quite fair, asked me to provide for a treatment centre in Galway, in addition to those in Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Letterkenny.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The Department of Finance is examining the group's resource proposals for 2007.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Nobody said that.

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Nobody said that.