Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Fisheries Local Action Groups: Bord Iascaigh Mhara

2:40 pm

Photo of Thomas PringleThomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)
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I had a couple of questions that were not addressed. Why did it take until 2012 to get the FLAGs up and running? There was an EU recommendation that there be a budget of €3 million per FLAG area. What is Mr. Keatinge's view on the fact that only 20 jobs were created in Ireland over the period of the last EMFF when there were 8,000 created across Europe? I also have a couple of supplementary questions.