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Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I answered that yesterday.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: That report has not been published because of legal issues.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not know.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It will be later this year.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: That is listed for late 2006. The heads of the Bill have been approved.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not have the name of the Bill but it will try to implement the recommendations of the all-party committee report.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: That legislation is due in 2007.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Shortall is correct that I said the pensions issue is part of the principles of the Bill and the Minister will outline that tomorrow. Pensions will be part of it.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I am not.

Order of Business (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It will be discussed on Committee Stage next week. There is no new Bill.

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: My Department has engaged Public Relations Consultants to a value of €77,353.38 since 2002. The breakdown for each year is as follows: € 2002 Nil 2003 Nil 2004 77,208.18 2005 145.20 2006 Nil These payments comprised of the following transactions: € 2004 RTE 35,256.79 PR Consultancy — EU Presidency 2004 Grayling Gilmore 29,803.65 PR...

Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The information sought by the Deputy is contained in the following schedule. Title Year Salary (incl. Overtime & allowances) Expenses Special Adviser and Programme Manager 2002 172,699.00 1,089.91 2003 179,280.00 1,778.51 2004 193,426.00 3,060.23 2005 197,764.00 248.6 2006 218,845.00 556.73 Special Adviser 2002 83,595.00 277.02 2003 95,041.00 0 2004...

Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 129 and 130 together. I refer the Deputy to the answers he was given on Wednesday, 7 December 2005 (Ref 38323/05) and Tuesday 13 December, 2005 (Ref 39019/05). There have been no changes in the staffing of these offices since that date. The projected annual cost of these Offices for 2006 are as follows: Office Salary (incl. overtime) Expenses € €...

Written Answers — Departmental Advertising: Departmental Advertising (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Details of advertising undertaken by my Department in each year since 2002 are set out in the attached table. This all related to newspaper advertising. Year Amount € 2002 51,164* 2003 10,212* 2004 21,608* 2005 27,731 2006 (Jan to June) 46,991* *Included in the above figures are payments made by my Department for advertisements which were or are due to be recouped...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132 to 136, inclusive, together. The current sanctioned staffing level in the Office of the Attorney General is 120. At present, there are 117.73 staff members serving with 5.27 vacancies. However, 3 of the staff are supernumerary while training for secondment to other Departments (see below). Two vacancies are expected to be filled on 10 July. In November,...

Leaders' Questions. (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Ó Caoláin will be aware that the largest share of expenditure of additional revenues this year was given to health — over €1 billion into health resources and €500 million into the capital programme for health. That has been the case every year, with expenditure on health increasing from approximately €3 billion to €12 billion. Therefore, the resources are being provided....

Leaders' Questions. (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Provision for acute medical units for non-surgical patients is being made as well as the transfer of 100 high dependency beds, 38 of which have been dealt with. All of these initiatives are being monitored carefully. We are providing admissions units and other facilities to alleviate pressure in accident and emergency departments in Cavan, Wexford, the Mercy Hospital in Cork and Our Lady of...

Leaders' Questions. (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, it is important. We want to engage with the staff and come to agreements where the length of the working day or the shift system will work so we can read the pathology lists and other lists and deal with these issues. However, we need the co-operation of the staff and staff associations to do that. I made a particular point of this in the negotiations. Also we want...

Leaders' Questions. (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I could go through all the procedures in every hospital under the capital programme. The Health Service Executive is putting €500 million this year alone into the hospitals. That is a huge amount of money. The biggest problem is making sure they will all spend it.

Leaders' Questions. (5 Jul 2006)

Bertie Ahern: We are staffing them.