Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

I have not met with Twitter executives, but on foot of the Deputy's inquiry, I will inquire as to what contacts have been made and whether there is an opportunity to get access at an appropriate level to try and influence such a choice.

I read the document Blueprint for Recovery as I was travelling from India to Saudi Arabia in the middle of the night and perhaps my recollection of it is not quite as sharp as it should be. It did make valuable suggestions, but many of them were suggestions that had been in previous reports. As I mentioned earlier, I am conducting a root and branch review of what we are doing in our agencies across all programmes and policies and I will look at the suggestions made to see whether they can be factored in to that. We will consider any good suggestions. The suggestion in the media today for a finder fee came from an individual with considerable international experience and is brilliant in a sense. It is something that should be tried. We are willing to try any good ideas and I will revise suggestions with a fine tooth comb to see what initiatives we can test.

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