Dr. Orlaigh Quinn:

The approach at the start of the Action Plan for Jobs was to take every possible action we could think of into the plan. The first plan had something like 320 actions. Some of them were small, although everything had an importance. When we move to future jobs, we are talking about 20 big actions, so we are trying to home in on what is important. That is not to say those 20 actions will ignore things that are already happening but some Departments are doing that work anyway and do not need the collective, cross-Government approach. The Department has learned over the seven years of the Action Plan for Jobs that each new iteration saw a reduced number of actions and the Department prioritised based on what was high impact and what was low impact. The focus in the next phase, next year, will be on the 20 big things that can be done to drive Ireland's enterprise and economic approach for the next ten years.