Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

I do not disagree with much of what the Deputy said. There are often too many reports which contain endless recommendations. We have tried to change our approach to how this process is working. It is how we can identify high-impact reforms that are implementable and timebound that will make an objective difference. That has been the central mandate of the task force. That is why there will be a report by the summer. The outworking of it, and the core remit of the task force, is to oversee, with me chairing it, the implementation of this across government. That is the mandate it has been given.

Having hundreds of recommendations in hundreds of pages of a particular report means that the specific actions are lost. That is why we are taking a focused approach to how we develop the work programme of both the infrastructure task force and the infrastructure division. The task force is also tasked with examining international best practice in the context of how we can measure Ireland against that. We know we have a significant infrastructure deficit. Some of that is in our delivery systems and in the processes that have developed over many years. All of that will fit within the recommendations that will come by the summer. It is about trying to move the dial on infrastructure delivery.

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