Opposition deputies claimed the coalition has failed to live up to commitments made in the Programme for Government.
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said the latest report on the progress made in implementing the programme represented "a litany of failure". For example, the promised 200,000 medical cards had not been delivered.
"In June 2002, a total of 1.207 million people were covered by medical cards, and in April 2005 only 1.145 million were covered. That is a failure."
Mr Kenny said they had been promised 3,000 extra hospital beds but that had failed as the Government had failed to provide extra nurses and consultants.
"Why is there no competition in the Dublin bus market, which is part of the agreed Programme for Government?"
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said not everything had been completed but, as in the last programme, the Government intended to get near to completion by the end of its five-year term.
"I can go through the detailed commitments, but in the broad terms of management of the economy, employment and the resources put into the health service, education and medical cards we have honoured our commitments.
"We continue to extend coverage to more patients in terms of facilities, whether in general areas or cardiac or cancer services. We have honoured the specific commitments made in all those areas."
Labour foreign affairs spokesman Michael D Higgins said an explicit commitment had been made to allocate 0.7 per cent of GNP to overseas development aid by 2007.
"That is the agreement with the social partners, the Programme for Government and the Fianna Fáil manifesto and that of other parties. It was the centrepiece of the Taoiseach's speech to the United Nations in September 2000.
"Not only has that not been implemented but no alternative date has been announced."
Agreeing that they would not reach the target, Mr Ahern said they would work to set a new target.
"One of the few downsides of the high economic growth in recent years is that even though we have put in record sums of money it still has not done much in terms of the percentage figure."
Joe Higgins (Socialist Party, Dublin West) said Mr Ahern was completing the third year of his second term of office, a total of eight years, and two years to go.
"Assuming that the second terms continues for the full five years, 60 per cent of time has elapsed but 60 per cent of the commitments have not been achieved by any stretch of the imagination."
