Public Service Minister Peter Kilfoyle has described the Government’s vision of the electronic future that has no place for the E-excluded. An aim of the Modernising government programme is to ensure that the benefits are brought to the whole of society.
He claimed that plans to modernise government foresee every single person having access to E-government and E-commerce systems. 

The Health Act 1999 has received Royal Assent. Its measures to foster modernisation of the health service include partnership working, moving decisions about treatment to the local level and provisions for raising quality standards.
The Act provides for new ways of joint working between the NHS and local councils. This will allow closer partnership working between health and social services professionals and include joint projects and budgets.