Dáil debates
Wednesday, 25 January 2006
European Council Meeting: Statements.
7:00 pm
Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
I will not go through a long dissertation on rural development but the point of the rural development programme in EU funding is to assist those areas coming out of purely agricultural industry and to bring them into newer areas not so reliant on agriculture. That has been the hallmark of European funding over the past number of years.
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