White Paper and campaign launch
The Taoiseach expected the information campaign to launch the following month and said a White Paper was worth considering, though it was probably premature.
I should like to ask the Taoiseach to indicate if the Government intend to publish a White Paper in regard to individual sectors concerning the effect of 1992. Will the Taoiseach be indicating in that White Paper, or elsewhere, precisely what the Government's approach is in regard to tax harmonisation, the removal of exchange controls and how they would wish to see the structural funds administered in Ireland? Will the Taoiseach indicate the likely date for the launch of the information campaign to which he referred?
Comment on this
To answer the last point first, it will almost certainly be next month. There are a few little aspects of this that have to be brought together. I would not be averse to the idea of a White Paper. It is something we can keep in mind but it is probably a bit early in the day yet to publish anything of that kind. Certainly, it would be very necessary, whether by means of a White Paper or otherwise, to keep everybody in the different sectors as fully informed as possible.