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Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Legislation is not necessary to secure some improvements.

Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: It is not necessary for the main recommendations.

Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Bill is due to be introduced after Christmas.

Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: There is no Supplementary Estimate.

Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Yes. I hope both Houses will debate it.

Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Legislation is not required to increase the schedule. That can been done a few times.

Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I do not know. The fees issue is a separate matter.

Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: They should not be charging.

Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Legislation is being prepared for the register of persons who are considered unsafe to work with children. I do not have a date for the legislation yet because the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Health and Children are discussing the establishment of a pre-employment consultancy service.

Order of Business. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The nursing home Bill will be brought before the House in this session.

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The new set of controls on which the Government decided will ensure that major IT projects in all areas are managed to best practice and standards. It will look back on projects. A new cross-departmental peer review is being introduced with immediate effect to cover existing and new major projects. Anything that is ongoing, therefore, will be examined, including the projects mentioned by the...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: As the Tánaiste said yesterday and I said last week, it is a fact that, despite intense opposition to our proposal to bring together the 11 health boards, we established the Health Service Executive——

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: ——to allow us correct the ways of the past and deal with these issues in a proper way. Deputy Kenny is right to say that people with design and international expertise were engaged on the e-Cabinet project. The point I made last week is that we did this for under €5 million because we needed the outside expertise to come in only to do some of the design work. We do not have those kind...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: In many cases consultants come in where the public service does not have the expertise to undertake a job. That expertise is necessary. Where members of the public service have the expertise they do that work under the guidelines set by the Department of Finance. It is not the case that whenever someone comes in waste is created. The impression people attempt to give that every time a...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: There are excellent services in this State and we have more teachers, nurses and staff.

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: It is good that we are able to spend €40 billion and we do not have to borrow that as we did before.

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: We do not have a national debt higher than that of Ethiopia, we have one of the lowest in the world and we should be proud of that.

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The cost of the e-Cabinet project, which was projected to cost €5 million up to the end of last year, was €3.489 million. Civil servants did most of the work on this as additional work, which they did extremely well and kept down the costs. All civil servants can link and feed in to the e-Cabinet system; it is not a system for only 15 of us, it is for the Civil Service to remove the paper...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Unfortunately the HSE did not ask them, that is why we are asking them now.

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The cross-departmental agency will bring the best of the public service expertise to bear on all agencies. It will be supplemented where necessary by the external expertise of the private sector and internationally. That would be a case of asking somebody in the private sector to give of his or her time and expertise to assist us.