Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 3 April 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Socioeconomic Profile of the Seven Gaeltacht Areas in Ireland: Discussion
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Certainly when I was Minister I did a deal saying that the údarás would be the one stop shop. Why drive people cracked going to LEO, the údarás, this one and that one because it is all State money? The whole idea was that it was seamless from day one with the first employee to the day the company had 500 employees, 2,000 employees or 10,000 employees: they were with the údarás. It was a much better model and it served the Gaeltacht very well. As the companies grew the údarás grew. The other strategy seems to me always to smack of tokenism to smaller areas as somebody who has lived through that hell.
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