Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

It is intended to strengthen the capacity to provide specialist support for the change process in key functional areas and to put in place new arrangements to accelerate the pace of change in consultation with the public service unions. Further details of these arrangements will be announced in due course.

In bringing in new members of Government, I am reinvigorating my ministerial team with experienced and capable colleagues.

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