Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

It is a question. Good policies are in place and I am not critical of them. What I want the Minister to accept is that there is a gap between what is decided as policy and what will happen on the ground. In light of that, can I return to the priority question and ask the Minister again whether there is a mechanism within the policy format that has been put forward to evaluate it as it is being implemented to ensure that by the time we reach the 2012 and 2016 deadlines we will have achieved what we set out to achieve, which did not happen in terms of the 2007 deadline, regardless of the data change?

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