Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Perhaps the Taoiseach should recognise that the two banking reports indicated that 75% of the crisis was home grown. He does not refer to that very often.

When does the Taoiseach expect to publish the national reform programme? The EU 2020 strategy adopted at the Council on 17 June provides for a plan for jobs and smart sustainable growth. It is accepted that the strategy will assist EU member states to emerge from this crisis with the capacity to deal with the problems of the future. Five headline areas are outlined - job creation, improved research and development investment, reduction of greenhouse gases by 20% compared with 1990 levels and increasing the share of renewables in final energy consumption by 20%, improving education levels and particularly reducing school drop-out rates to less than 10%, and promoting social inclusion through a reduction in poverty. These are laudable headlines. When the national reform programme is published by the Government is it expected that the five headlines adopted at the Council meeting will be addressed in it in some detail?

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