Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Perhaps the Taoiseach will indicate three recommendations from the innovation report that have been implemented. Given that his nominee, Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, has been appointed to an important and influential position in terms of innovation, which has a €50 billion budget, does the Taoiseach intend to send the task force to meet the Commissioner in a European context or to invite her to meet here with the task force in regard to her proposals, in a European sense, for an innovative strategy for the next ten years?

The Taoiseach will be aware that with the changes that will come in terms of the Internet, robotics, biotechnology and genetics, the world will change utterly in the next decade and that innovation is a central feature in this regard. Is this potentially important dimension of Ireland's membership of the European Union being explored by the task force?

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