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Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: That is what happened. Although the consultants believed it was possible to implement it, they have had difficulty in doing so, as has happened in the Bank of Ireland and a number of other companies.

Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Tomorrow, the HSE will decide, having brought the system to a certain point, what is the best way for it to implement a complete system, to both save money in the future and to have a good management system.

Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Rabbitte should note that to build a Tallaght Hospital today would cost in the order of €800 million, not €1 million.

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: There is nothing new from what I said last week about the register of persons considered unsafe to work with children. I will ask for an update on the matter but I stated last week that the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Health and Children have discussed the establishment of a pre-employment consultancy service. As for the third level student support Bill,...

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Bill has been included in the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government's proposed planning and development Bill, the strategic infrastructure Bill.

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I am told it is due early next year.

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: It is in the planning and development Bill.

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: No. We already have legislation governing buses.

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: Is the Deputy asking if we will consider providing Government time for a Private Member's motion?

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: If he can get the other Opposition parties to agree to give their time, that is fine by me.

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Deputy must go on the list with all the other Members who want time.

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I used to be accused of spending too much, but now we spend too little. Thankfully, we are spending €6 billion on infrastructural projects.

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: We are delivering many things in many places. We have 50 major infrastructural projects under way. The Deputy is aware of that and wherever such projects are not delivering, he has been supplied with answers to his parliamentary questions. I have answered already that the Bill in question, the infrastructural Bill, is being included in the planning and development Bill, which is due next year.

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I did not catch all of that. Is it about the British Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill?

Order of Business. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I will raise the issue. The British-Irish Agreement (Amendment) Bill is already law, but the Deputy claims there is still a loophole.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: I will just touch on some of the issues. The PPARS system started off first in the mid 1990s when the health boards decided they needed a better payroll system because they did not even know how many people were working for them at the time. They looked at setting up a payroll system for a number of the health boards at the time and the estimated cost was €9 million or €10 million. Early...

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Hay organisation estimated that it would cost €95 million to do the job.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: We are talking about a payroll of €7 billion and a total number of staff of approximately 140,000.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The Hay organisation said that a reduction in absenteeism would lead to savings of €56 million per annum. After two or three years, therefore, the savings would be worth more than the entire cost of the system.

Leaders' Questions. (4 Oct 2005)

Bertie Ahern: The organisation also suggested that the system would lead to a reduction in staff turnover and would facilitate cost avoidance systems. The health boards tried to pull all of this together. An international IT consultancy group, Gardner, was commissioned in July 2004 to examine where the project was then. The group's report indicated that although spending was in line with the level outlined...