Each member of the Government is responsible for job creation in the sectors for which he/she has departmental responsibility, e.g. the Minister for Industry and Commerce for manufacturing and international services, the Minister for Tourism, Transport and Communications for tourism, transport and communications, the Minister for the Environment for construction, the Minister for the Marine for the marine, the Minister for Energy for forestry, and the Minister for Agriculture and Food for agriculture, food and horticulture.
The Central Review Committee, established in December 1987 by the Government and the social partners under the Programme for National Recovery, and continued under the new Programme for Economic and Social Progress, to review and monitor the progress in implementing the programme and in particular the achievement of its targets and objectives, monitors progress in job creation areas on an going basis. The committee published a progress report on job creation in December 1988, and a further progress report, which included job creation, in February 1990. Section V of the Programme for Economic and Social Progress outlined the progress achieved in relation to job creation under the Programme for National Recovery and set out targets and objectives to be achieved under the new programme. Paragraph 4 of section X of the Programme for Economic and Social Progress provides that the Central Review Committee mechanism will continue to operate to monitor the achievement of the targets and objectives including those for job creation of the new programme.