Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is a process involving local authorities and their regional assemblies. In the context of NUTS 3 regions, we are working with local authorities and our own agencies in the context of seeking to develop regional enterprise strategies.

We were deliberately timing those ahead of the emergence of the wider regional infrastructure plan in order to get the enterprise thinking, needs, expectations and opportunities into that process ahead of the wider infrastructure. We are therefore consciously developing our regional enterprise strategy in the NUTS 3 region ahead of that cycle to try to influence the cycle.