Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State is creating mini area implementation teams, AITs. The AITs used to involve all the agencies as well as community representatives. I would love to discuss this in detail. In my view, an excuse was used to stop focusing significant resources in the areas of highest deprivation. I am not blaming the Minister of State. He was not in politics in 2011 when certain forces got at this and decided there was too much focus on these areas and they were getting too much, despite have always been the most deprived areas in our communities. Each of us could write a list and we would all come up with more or less the same areas. We can discuss that again. I must go to do my television programme. I apologise.