Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

I am disappointed to hear there is no plan to have a meeting of the forum. Does the Minister accept that the forum was a good way to resolve issues on the ground and that it did extraordinarily good work? Does the Minister agree the challenge was to secure greater participation, although some of the groups who were opposed to it in various forms attended the meetings as observers?

Does the Minister agree that one of the roles of the forum was to ensure the area would benefit from the development and that issues of conflict within the community would be resolved? Does he accept there was wide community participation in the forum by many groups and that it helped to resolve problems on the ground? I ask the Minister to reconsider calling a meeting of the forum in the near future as it was doing very good work.

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