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Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made within his Department in the implementation of the strategic management initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6084/05]

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: That is a long and confusing answer. One of the outcomes of the strategic management initiative of which the Taoiseach will be aware is the enactment of the Public Service Management Act 1997. I do not wish to reopen the debate we had this morning, but does the Taoiseach agree that, under that element of the strategic management initiative, it is the responsibility of Ministers to ask...

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: I will not quote from the article, I have memorised it. Mr. Bowers said that thousands of medical card holders in public beds were charged——

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: I did not yet get to the question. The Taoiseach said that his Department has become more productive and more customer focused. We are, for instance, paying €300,000 for the communications unit within his Department. Does the Taoiseach think that people would have seen that article on the front page of the Irish Independent of 7 January 2001, that they would have brought it to the notice of...

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach does not intend spending all his life in his Department.

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: May I ask a question on the same point? I referred to the guidelines for Ministers and implementation of the Public Service Management Act 1997 which was part of the strategic management initiative. I have just seen the report we have awaited. Central to that report is a letter on page 157 from the soon to be former Secretary General who said he briefed the Minister for Health and Children at...

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: It does and I will tell you why.

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: If you let me finish I will tell you why it arises, Sir. One of the outcomes of the strategic management initiative was the Public Service Management Act 1997. One of the central elements of that Act was that Ministers are responsible for appropriate strategies and systems to ensure the organisation is in the place.

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: Just a second. The notes taken at that meeting indicate that the then Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Callely, was due to brief the Taoiseach on the public charges. Page 158 of the Travers report refers.

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: The Minister of State, Deputy Callely, took notes at that meeting.

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: I am not making a statement.

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: Did the then Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Callely, under the strategic management initiative, brief the Taoiseach, as referred to on page 158 of the Travers report, on the fact that the knowledge that these charges on public service beds was illegal at that meeting?

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: It does.

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: It does. It arises from the Taoiseach's own guidelines in 2002 on ministerial responsibility. They are the guidelines issued by the Taoiseach in respect of the strategic management initiative.

Strategic Management Initiative. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: It is on the bottom of page 157 and the top of page 158.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: Will the Taoiseach or the Chief Whip explain what this means? Deputy Rabbitte has called for a debate in the House before the Taoiseach leaves, even though he may not be leading the debate. Am I to understand that this is a procedure to allow for the matter to go before the committee and that the committee will report back inside three months?

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: The report has been published. Does it have the privilege of the Dáil given that it has not formally gone before the committee by way of motion? In other words, does the published report have the status of a privileged document?

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: On a point of information, I understand from Deputy Paul McGrath, who was chairman of the committee dealing with the Kelly Fitzgerald report in 1996, that the committee met and proposed that the report be published. It then had the privileged status of the House.

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: I hope the Ceann Comhairle will allow questions tomorrow. In advance of his trip to America next Tuesday and in view of the outrageous statement by the IRA, is it the Taoiseach's intention——

Order of Business. (9 Mar 2005)

Enda Kenny: The IRA has never made a statement in which it agreed to make an offer to the sisters of a murdered man that it would shoot the person it deemed responsible. Does the Ceann Comhairle not think that is important?