The Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources was established in June 2002. Prior to then the constituent parts of the Department were spread among a number of Departments and the priorities identified in those constituent parts were set in the context of their respective parent Departments at the time.
In regard to the current formation of the Department, I refer the Deputy to the Department's statement of strategy 2003-05 which sets out overarching high level goals and strategies for the Department and for each of the sectors for which the Department has responsibility. In addition to this, the strategy statement sets out an indicative list of broad performance indicators associated with the high level goals and strategies and specific performance indicators for each of the sectoral strategies.
My Department is preparing a new statement of strategy for the period 2005-07. Reflecting the wide range of responsibilities my Department has across a number of sectors, the new strategy statement will also set overarching high level goals and strategies and associated performance indicators for the Department and for each of the sectors. Priorities, both overarching and sectoral, and associated indicators, will reflect the programme for Government and all of Government's strategic priorities.
