Councillor Paul Canning:

I welcome the comments, but regarding who should be the driver and from where it should be driven people always say local politics start from the bottom up. We know our priorities and have listed them but we can only take them so far. It seems to break down at that point. If we had a link to the committee and the committee was able to tell us how far it was advancing the matter, that information could be fed back to us. We would like to leave today with a commitment that a framework will be put in place to pursue the priorities we have identified today. We can work from that. We have a goal to achieve. If we had that as a starting point, we can then add to it at a local level. Currently, we take it to one level. We have an outstanding and we have delivered on projects. We have a good working group that is working for the benefit of the north west. However, we go as far as Omagh and we get stuck. We want to take it further and we want a light back from the committee. I congratulate the chair on his new position and I would like this to be an item that he pursues for us.