Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. J.P. Mulherin:
I will take that one. As the Chair has said, we have 65 we would say are either complete or well under way.
We are therefore confident they will be delivered in the coming months.
A number of other actions in the strategy are not timetabled to be completed until the next two years. We have started consideration of them. They will, as the Deputy noted, be delivered by different partners or stakeholders which are represented in Comhairle na Tuaithe. Some of the original timelines for some of these actions were challenging, if we are being totally frank. As it was a stakeholder-led strategy, there is a large number of them and a little overlap between some of them. Some of the timelines were a little ambitious. However, I suspect, if other stakeholders from Comhairle na Tuaithe were around the table, they would be positive about the level of delivery and engagement in delivering the actions thus far. While we still have a fair way to go, progress has been relatively good. An annual report will be published next month, which will give a clear picture of each of the actions-----
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