Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The Minister for Foreign Affairs produced a report on to that and it was put on the website. However, as Deputy Gilmore says, there are ideas that have to be taken forward and concepts that have to be developed. A great deal of work is being done in respect of some of those mentioned at the conference and it will continue.

On the innovation task force, I make the point that the next meeting will be, if not the last, then the penultimate meeting and I expect a report in the next couple of months, based on how advanced things are at the moment.

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