Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

Question 39: To ask the Minister for Enterprise; Trade and Innovation the decision he has made on each of the recommendations of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programme report relevant to his Department such as creating a single funding stream for all science, technology and innovation activities across all Departments, the discontinuation of funding for the Irish Council for Bioethics, the reduction of Departmental civil servants serving the science, technology and innovation programme, consolidating all indigenous enterprise support and sector marketing functions in Enterprise Ireland and the rationalisation the organisations losing functions as appropriate, the reduction of Industrial Development Authority capital and administrative costs including rationalisation of regional offices in Ireland and shared services, efficiency saving in administration and programme prioritisation in Enterprise Ireland, the rationalisation of IDA and Enterprise Ireland overseas offices, reorganisation Shannon Development, reorganisation of Forfás, outsourcing the Certification Service of the National Standards Authority of Ireland, the rationalisation of all employment services provided or funded by the State into a single operation, ending the dual entitlement of certain social welfare claimants to both social welfare payments and FÁS training allowances or Community Employment allowances, cutting FÁS services to business, finding efficiencies in the FÁS administration budget, the relocation of all Industrial Relations institutions to a single location, merging the Health and Safety Authority and the National Employment Rights Authority into one Work Place Inspectorate, merging the functions of the Registrar of Friendly Societies and Companies Registration Office, savings in corporate services, a reduction in administrative budget and a transfer of foreign posts to Brussels to reduce travel and subsidence spend, merging the Irish Takeover Panel with the Competition Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25397/10]

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