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Five Irish public sector projects are up for gongs in the 2005 eEurope Awards for eGovernment to be held in Manchester next month, a tonic for a beleaguered sector that has been heavily under attack from the media in recent weeks.

The strong Irish contingent is made up of Meath County Council for its work in taking communities online, the Local Government Computer Services Board for Mobhaile, the Department of An Taoiseach for its eCabinet initiative and the Revenue Commissioners for its ongoing innovation around the Revenue On-Line Service portal.

Read more: Ireland: Government going for public sector gongs

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Eight secondary schools in Lisburn are running a pilot smart card scheme as part of the Online Northern Ireland (NI) e-government strategy in the province. Around 6,500 pupils will participate in the project, which is aimed at reducing the need for them to carry cash.

Every student will be issued with a photographic smart card fitted with a microchip that carries data as well as an electronic purse that will allow pupils to pay for school meals, borrow library books or use leisure and sports facilities in the local area.

Read more: Ireland: Smart cards for NI students in pilot project

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The government is to harness additional expert advice to control the cost of public IT projects, but industry experts say that the issues aren't that complex.

The cabinet has agreed to establish a "peer review system" for major public IT projects, which will involve experts from across the public service assessing projects to prevent cost overruns and the development of systems that cannot be used.

Read more: Ireland: Experts to review government IT projects

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Almost 60 per cent of technology projects given priority status by the government three years ago have yet to be implemented, were not finished on time or have been scrapped.

Just 29 out of 70 flagship e-government projects have been finished on schedule, despite significant government investment into a host of technology systems, according to analysis conducted by The Sunday Business Post.

Read more: Ireland: State falls short in 60% of e-government projects

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Die irische Gesundheitsbehörde Health Service Executive (HSE) hat die Einführung einer neuen Software für die Personalverwaltung gestoppt. Unter dem Projekt "Personnel, Payroll and Related Systems" (PPARS), das bereits vor rund zehn Jahren startete, sollten die Daten von etwa 120.000 Mitarbeitern des irischen Gesundheitswesens in eine neue Verwaltungssoftware einfließen.

Read more: Irische Behörden stoppen SAP-Projekte

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