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

In the case of those areas in which there will be more than one strategy or where more than one group can submit a strategy, what is the ultimate amount of time the second group might have? I refer to a scenario in which one group submitted a strategy whereas the other group held back. Can the latter group hold back indefinitely on submitting a strategy and for how long could it hold up the process before being informed it was out of time? This is a concern in those areas in which two strategies are being submitted, that is, the possibility of getting a long-drawn-out process that would leave them far behind the rest of the early starters.

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