Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

What is the Government's position on the report of an bord snip nua? Since it was published, the Taoiseach has maintained it will inform the Government's decisions in respect of the Estimates and the budget, yet individual Ministers have taken a pop at it as they have seen fit, including the Tánaiste, who stated there was a lot in it that did not make sense. Has the Government accepted the report? Do I understand from the Taoiseach's last reply that the Government's intention is to implement the recommendations of the report, but not all in 2010? Is it the case that the Taoiseach intends to implement some of the recommendations in 2010 and the remainder in the remaining years? Has any decision been made to rule out or reject recommendations in the report? Alternatively, are we to assume all the recommendations will be implemented incrementally and that we will be told what recommendations are to be implemented in the budget for 2010?

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