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

The Minister of State is aware I have been asking regularly about progress on the roll-out of the Leader programme. As it is now the end of the year, I am anxious to get an update on the number of final plans the Department has received, when Leader programmes are likely to begin and how many such programmes the Minister of State hopes to be able to approve before Christmas and in the next few months. I seek to ascertain how matters are progressing with the roll-out of the Leader programme because as a five-year programme, unless it starts in the early part of next year, it will not be finished in 2020.

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