Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I acknowledge that the Taoiseach's reply supports that. I wish to follow on from what Deputy Kenny requested. Perhaps an exercise should be undertaken at this point to evaluate the success of what the Taoiseach has just read into the record. I have no doubt we are all on the same page in what we want to achieve in terms of small and medium enterprises. It is in all our interests that we know exactly how successful or otherwise this approach and endeavour has been. Will the Taoiseach agree to initiate an evaluation of the success of the measures about which he has just informed us; to carry out a study of all the various procurement opportunities that have presented over a given period of 12 months, two years or three years; to do a comparative study as to how successful that has been and to learn from the exercise where this can be either tweaked or better marketed in terms of Irish small and medium enterprises in order that we can maximise the potential for all of those either in manufacturing or in service provision? I appeal to the Taoiseach to do that because it is not enough just to rest on the stated intent. We need to know how successful it has been. I believe we all collectively want to ensure that it is the most successful that it can be.

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