Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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I would say it will be across the areas that they recommended previously. It would include active labour market policy, which is very much the area in which the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, is actively involved, which covers the matters we have been discussing, those of education, training and traineeships. I doubt that wage setting mechanisms will be an issue for us as we have reformed them and we are continuing to introduce change. In terms of research and development and innovation, sweating the assets as best we can and creating a good environment for commercialisation, we have been working in that area. Another area is access to finance, as Deputy Calleary said. There will be familiar themes in the country-specific recommendations, there will not be some startling new areas. It is a question of pushing on and getting new initiatives embedded.