Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)

No, my statement stated, "... the next decade by implementing the report of the Innovation Taskforce". That is what was announced.

The composition of the implementation group includes a majority of private sector persons - nine as against eight - and the idea is that private sector involvement will drive it. The Taoiseach has indicated clearly that it is a cornerstone of our jobs strategy into the future. We are absolutely intent, by me chairing the group, to ensure that there is joined up action and joined up thinking across departmental boundaries and that such will be further advanced by the participation of the persons who are on the taskforce who brought in the recommendations and who are still on that taskforce to drive the implementation.

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