Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One of the recommendations called for the formation of a collective island representative organisation, and this has been done. It would seem to fly in the face of that to split them up again. The committee could easily draft something, and it would back up a recommendation we made for a cohesive approach to the island communities. There is no problem with writing to the Minister.

The island organisation is not the only group for which this is relevant. I know the Irish Traveller Movement and others made a similar submission under the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP. The movement sought to represent the community collectively, although not for the entire country. Anyway, the Government encouraged the establishment of that group some years ago. The same principle applies here.

Perhaps the committee should put its thinking cap on again to try to come up with a formula for an implementation group or make a recommendation to the Minister to get one under way. Any group should include a representative of the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Ann Phelan, since she is the person in charge of the implementation of the CEDRA recommendations. Is there anything else?