Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I thank Dr. Beamish for his comprehensive answers. I am concerned about the need for the implementation plan to be finalised and published. I take his point that many of these recommendations will be more medium term and so on and that some will be more achievable. The priority has to be to get the licences renewed and issued. Resources need to be allocated to that. Some of these recommendations may have a longer timeline than we might like. At this point it is crucial to see what the plan looks like. We need to see the timelines and the Department's views on the various recommendations - whether it accepts them and wants to put a timeline on them or if it does not think they are feasible. Given that the independent review was published last May, we should have seen the implementation plan before now, including a formal response and plan of action from the Department.