Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide additional details of the structured monitoring process for the targets outlined in the White Paper on enterprise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63604/22]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The White Paper on Enterprise sets out the Government’s approach to enterprise policy for the period to 2030. It includes 15 targets – elaborated in the Appendix of the White Paper - which detail the Government’s ambitions in terms of employment and across the seven identified priority enterprise policy objectives:

- Integrating decarbonisation and net zero commitments;

- Placing Digital transformation at the heart of enterprise policy;

- Advancing Ireland’s FDI and trade value proposition ;

- Strengthening the Irish-owned exporting sector;

- Enabling locally trading sectors to thrive;

- Stepping up enterprise innovation; and

- Building on strengths and opportunities.

My Department is leading on developing consecutive two-year Implementation Plans of cross-government activity to implement the White Paper commitments. These Implementation Plans will set out how the various Government Departments, agencies and offices will deliver their respective commitments as timetabled deliverables. Officials in my Department are currently preparing the first programme of activity that will cover the period to the end of 2024 and each biennial Plan will be published.

Progress will be reported on biannually to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Recovery and Investment and monitored on an ongoing basis via the associated Senior Officials Group.

The biannual reports will include updates on progress towards the 15 targets with new data under each of the measures included as it becomes available from the relevant sources. A number of the targets set out in the White Paper have delivery dates for 2024 and 2025 and will therefore be reviewed and updated in subsequent programmes of activity post 2024 with my Department leading a dynamic approach to the White Paper’s implementation having regard to national and international developments as they unfold over the lifetime of the White Paper.