Written answers

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation

Departmental Programmes

9:00 pm

Photo of Gerry AdamsGerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 98: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he will monitor implementation of the 2012 Action Plan for Jobs; when will the first report on the progress of implementation be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10762/12]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The Action Plan for Jobs 2012 contains over 270 actions for delivery across all 15 Government Departments and 36 State agencies, to support employment creation and retention. Each action is broken down into quarterly measures - or milestones - for delivery, and the body responsible for implementation of those measures is identified.

A Monitoring Committee, comprising representatives from the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, my own Department and Forfas, has been established to track the progress of each of the milestones. The Monitoring Committee is supported by a small team in the Department of the Taoiseach.

When the Action Plan was launched in February, the Taoiseach stated that he would publish Progress Reports on the implementation of the Action Plan on a quarterly basis. The first such Progress Report was published on 20 April. It showed that 80 of the 83 measures due to be delivered in the first Quarter of 2012 have been completed. While the 3 remaining measures were not fully completed on schedule, significant progress has been made on these items and I fully expect them to be finalised during the second Quarter. The Progress Report is available on my Department's website, www.djei.ie.

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