Minister Conor Lenihan has just announced the innovation taskforce's report 'Delivering the Smart Economy': http://www.entemp.ie/press/2009/20091022.htm
The report itself should be on entemp.ie in a few hours and would be worth a skim or at least a grep for patents.
Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran@member.fsf.org writes:
The innovation taskforce is something that's active, Irish and worrying, but I haven't gotten to dig into it yet: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Ireland#Current_issues