Seán Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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Question 16: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she has taken to implement the recommendations in the Forfás report of the overview of the main infrastructure issues for enterprise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40941/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Forfás provide policy advice to my Department on a range of issues including infrastructure priorities for enterprise. Their most recent Statement on Infrastructure Priorities was published in January 2009.

This Report identified priorities in the areas of transport, energy, telecommunications, waste and water infrastructure. The views and advice in the Forfás Report are taken into consideration in the context of Cabinet deliberations on the Budget and in the context of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Renewal. This Cabinet Committee is leading implementation of the Government's Framework for Sustainable Economic Renewal which recognises the importance of continued investment in critical infrastructure to improve the environment for enterprise.