Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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55. To ask the Taoiseach the number of organisations that have made a submission to the consultation on the national reform programme 2014 to date. [16263/14]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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56. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which the consultation process for the national reform programme 2014 was advertised or publicised. [16264/14]

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 55 and 56 together.

Stakeholder engagement is regarded as an important part or the National Reform Programme (NRP) process.

In late February, officials in my Department wrote to a number of organisations representative of civil society and regional bodies, requesting submissions in advance of the preparation of the NRP 2014.

Subsequently the Minister of State for European Affairs, Paschal Donohoe T.D., wrote to those organisations, enclosing the draft NRP, seeking further observations.

To date eight organisations have made submissions/observations.

A draft of the NRP was circulated to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs at the end of March, and Minister Donohoe appeared before that Committee last week to discuss the draft.