Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

European Union-Related Matters: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

2:30 pm

Photo of Rose Conway WalshRose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein)
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Indeed. I am living in the story. Let us consider the Leader funding. We know that in Mayo alone, Leader funding is between €9 million and €12 million less than it was in the previous programme. I will finish it at that. If people in rural Ireland cannot send emails because of lack of broadband or cannot make telephone calls, then they do not have the services they need. Perhaps even more than the Minister and me, they are the best judges of all of this.