In April 2002 the Government established a review group in the context of social partnership to examine the operation of the scheme to ensure it best meets the requirements of employers and employees. The group consisted of representatives of the social partners, including IBEC, the CIF, the ICTU, the Departments of the Taoiseach, Finance, Social and Family Affairs, and Enterprise, Trade and Employment, which provided its chair and secretariat. The terms of reference of the review group included a review of the operation of the scheme, which is funded from the social insurance fund and operates on the basis of the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2001. It was also asked to identify the legislative, administrative and systemic requirements of a more effective, efficient and simple customer-service driven scheme adapted to an e-government environment. The group was further required to examine the benefit of developing options for Government and social partner consideration and report to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment within four months with recommendations and costings of the various proposals.