Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development

Western Development Commission: Chairperson-Designate

3:00 pm

Mr. Ian Brannigan:

No, the idea is to get this working. We are working with the board at the moment to figure that out. We have ideas and we are working with the board and the parent Department to figure out ways to make efficient use of this capital. I do not mean from a treasury point of view, but from a remit point of view and to get this money out there. I referred to some of the projects in energy, tourism and so on, that we have been gestating with partners for some time. We would like to see many of those realised sooner rather than later.

I love the imagery the Deputy used about a factory at the back of a hill the middle of nowhere, and I totally agree. The Deputy asked if we could do a mapping exercise. We used to do a regional directory, which we paid a lot of money to get an external firm to do. Amazingly, there was no directory for companies in the region at the time. We stopped that for cost reasons about four or five years ago. It is something we would have to consider. The Deputy was referring to a mapping exercise outside of major towns, if I am correct.

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