196 Mr. J. Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance the different working groups, review groups, expert groups, commissions, interdepartmental working groups and various fora established by him since entering office in 1997. [30443/01]

The details required by the Deputy are as follows.

The role of the Civil Service quality assurance group is to verify that the performance indicators for Civil Service Departments and offices are satisfactory and sufficiently challenging vis-á-vis the key objectives set out in PPF and to report progress achieved against these indicators at individual Department and office levels.