The promised Community Warden service to be set up by local authorities to ease the workload on gardai to allow them concentrate on crime control has not been established.
No mention of a strategic alliance for the VHI.
The National Hospice Plan is still awaited.
There is no mention in the review of the independent agency to administer FEOGA and other payments such as premia to farmers. The Programme for Government said the agency would have its own accounting officer.
The promised "New Deal for Travellers" is still awaited although the review says a committee has been formed to monitor the implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on the Travelling Community.
The spate of political and business scandals has led to the inclusion of a new policy area of "Ethics" in the Government's Progress Report.
A Standards in Public Office Bill to be published later this year to implement the recommendations of the McCracken Tribunal.
Forthcoming Local Government Bill to contain ethics/ standards regime for local authorities.
Re-statement of Government's "non-ideological" approach to future of semi-state companies. Policy rooted in "finding the right strategic partner" . . . Aer Lingus and Aer Rianta only semi-states referred to in Progress Report.
Progress update on Luas light rail system for Dublin included in report.
DART extensions to Greystones and Malahide to be operational by next summer.
Commitment to retain all existing rail network.
Despite describing hospital waiting lists as a "crisis" in its 1997 Action Programme, the first fall during the life of the Government only came in March of this year.
Priority now being given to services for older people and Accident and Emergency services - two "areas that will help to address the underlying causes of waiting lists".
Despite the designation of Dublin's Mater Hospital as centre for the national heart and lung facility, Progress Report accepts that its establishment is still two years away.
A White Paper on Defence promised "within one year" of June 1997 still unpublished and now expected by the end of this year.
Proposed participation in Partnership for Peace by the autumn.
