Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

I thank the Minister for his reply and I look forward - assuming it will still be my responsibility to do so after tomorrow - to examining the table to which he refers in great detail. I would not agree with every proposal contained in the an bord snip nua report but I and my party agree with many of them. For some time I have been critical of the fact that the Government commissions reports and appoints task forces but does not then state, within a reasonable timeframe, which recommendations it is accepting, which ones it is refusing - and the reasons for so doing - and which ones it is going to implement. That practice should be normal for Government.

Does the Minister agree that if a report is commissioned or a task force appointed, the Government should, within a reasonable timeframe, indicate the recommendations it intends to accept and those it intends to reject? Does he also agree that reasons should be indicated as to why certain recommendations might be rejected and that information should be provided with regard to when and how those which are being accepted will be implemented.

The Minister indicated that eight of the recommendations in the report have been accepted. Have any been rejected?

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