Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his reply which was full of generalities about which I did not particularly ask. When I received such an answer when I was a Minister, I tended to say, "That is not what the Deputy asked. Will you just give the answer to the question?" The answer to the question is that the Minister is able to assure me that funding for the development companies on the island will continue after March and will be approximately the same amount or perhaps a little more because inflation obviously takes its toll. That is the question to which they want an answer because the lives of those on the islands are at stake. Not only that, people have commitments and want to know what is going to happen. They are not particularly interested in the machinations between Departments because they say the Government acts as a collective and they are asking it to give them a collective answer. Will there be funding or not?

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