Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Promoting Sustainable Rural Coastal and Island Communities: Discussion

2:35 pm

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That might be a good starting point. The House sits on every second Friday and there is an opportunity for each committee to list a topic for debate. The topic discussed is chosen by means of a lottery. We have listed the report to be taken for debate. Perhaps the members of the committee could co-ordinate on a cross-party basis in order to ensure that a debate on this matter takes place in the House, thereby giving us the opportunity to suggest how the recommendations might be implemented. Establishing a forum to move matters on is the key to what we are trying to achieve. It sounds somewhat wishy-washy but we are obliged to start with some sort of a vehicle in order to actually move forward and proceed to work on the list of recommendations. Everybody present is keen to make that happen.

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