The education section of the programme for Government committed to the establishment of "a multi-campus technical university in the south-east". I presume this should say "technological university". This relates to commitments given before the last election regarding a new university in Waterford. The programme for Government states "We will explore the establishment of a multi-campus technical university in the south east". Will the Taoiseach give an update on the progress of this commitment? When can we expect the promised legislation?

On the issue of universal primary care, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Alex White, said the legislation currently in the House relating to free GP care for children under six years of age had been pushed back until autumn. This is yet another delay. The Taoiseach must examine the entire page of commitments made on primary care in the programme for Government because it bears no relationship to reality any more. When will the universal primary care Bill be passed? It says in the programme for Government that universal primary care will be introduced in phases so that additional doctors, nurses and other primary care professionals can be recruited. It says that during the term of the Government, GP training places will be increased and GPs will be encouraged to defer retirement and will be recruited from abroad. The plan was to increase the number of practice nurses so that care could be delegated to nurses where appropriate. Access to primary care without fees was to be extended in the first year to claimants of free drugs under the long-term illness scheme at a cost of €17 million. Access to primary care without fees was to be extended in the second year to claimants of free drugs under the high-tech drugs scheme at a cost of €15 million. Access to subsidised care was to be extended to all in the following phase. The programme goes on and on. A new GP contract was to provide incentives to GPs to care more intensively for patients with chronic illnesses. Registration of primary care teams was to be compulsory. This all now reads as though it came from fantasy land. Will any of this be implemented?

When can we expect the universal primary care Bill, which is to govern all of this? What of the ring-fenced funding that was promised for additional psychologists and counsellors?

It seems that what is required are concrete proposals to address these issues with which we have been living now for the past three and a half years.

Given the Taoiseach's commitment to a Cabinet reshuffle, when does he expect to bring before the House a resolution for the appointment of Ministers to new portfolios? What is the timeline in terms of that proposition being brought before the House?

Fairly soon is the answer to the Deputy's last question.

Fairly soon.

In regard to the universal primary care Bill, I will give the Deputy an update later on it. I take the Deputy's point about a comprehensive response to the nine or ten issues he raised in relation to the programme for Government. I am glad to be able to inform the Deputy that progress is being made on the technological university legislation. I understand there is now much greater progress between Waterford and Carlow institutes of technology, which is to be welcomed because this is where the process commenced following the closure a number of years ago of TalkTalk. A number of entities in Dublin are moving ahead with lodging their formal applications and discussions between Tralee and Cork institutes of technology and Letterkenny, Sligo and the Galway-Mayo institutes of technology are ongoing. The process is moving ahead although, perhaps, not as fast as one would wish. The criteria in this regard are set very high, as they must be because what we do not want at the end of this process is inferior entities. I will seek more up to date information for the Deputy but I can confirm that progress is being made.

Will the Taoiseach answer my question about the universal primary care Bill?

I will come back to the Deputy with a date in that regard.