Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 20 May 2004
219 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action taken by his Department on each recommendation of the PA consultancy report on the implementation of the strategic management initiative. [15031/04]
View answerThe agenda for the current phase of the public service modernisation programme, informed by the PA report, is effectively set out in the pay agreement Sustaining Progress. Detailed progress reports for the implementation of the programme in my Department have been submitted. This was done through the Department of Finance and submitted to the Civil Service performance verification group established under Sustaining Progress. The first such progress report was published in October 2003 and is available on the Department of Finance's website. The second progress report was submitted in April 2004 and is being considered by the CSPVG. It will be published in the coming weeks. The implementation of the SMI is also reported in my Department's annual reports.
My Department has made good progress since the PA report was published. It concluded that accelerated progress was required in the areas of human resource management, financial management and information systems management. My Department has built on good progress in these areas and it has since published a human resources strategy and rolled out a new financial management system. The motor tax on-line facility, a key electronic Government project, is also available nationwide.
