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

I thank the Minister of State for her reply. May I take it that in 23 of the areas only one strategy will be submitted? Let us suppose a strategy is submitted for evaluation. May I take it that if it passes muster, the Department will very quickly allow the contracts to be signed to allow progress to be made? The Minister of State might confirm this officially. May I take it that the Department has received strategies, but that it expects the bulk of them to be submitted between now and the end of the year? I am not necessarily saying they have been approved but submitted. Am I correct in assuming it will take approximately one month for the evaluation committee to evaluate the final strategies? I understand there have been preliminary discussions and that, allowing for the Christmas period, within one working month a company can expect its strategy to be up and running.

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