Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

I cannot find any record of a figure being put on it. As we said all along it was a matter of the re-prioritisation of existing national development plan moneys. This is what is written in the press releases. I assure the Deputy that a new national development plan is under development and the entire issue of social inclusion obviously will be part of it, just as it was in its predecessor.

The Deputy appears to be suggesting that we should have RAPID areas and super-RAPID areas, which is an interesting idea. Tomorrow, I will meet representatives of the RAPID groups in an open forum, as I do once every six months. It would be interesting to put the proposal to them, to ascertain whether they believe there should be RAPID and super-RAPID areas and whether I should differentiate between them. In some ways, we already do this to an extent——

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