Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Last week, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, announced a 9% increase in the allocation for local and regional roads. The Minister of State at that Department, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan, opened the sports capital programme with €30 million are available nationwide. The Deputy will, as do I, appreciate the significance of the sports capital programme to local clubs across the country.

The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Leo Varadkar, allocated an additional 500 places for the rural social scheme.

There is a lot in that but what is also important is that I will be monitoring the monthly progress on this report and a six-monthly report will be made available to the public for everyone to see what has been achieved and measure the progress to date. There is also the Cabinet committee that is chaired by the Taoiseach, so every Minister will be held to account. It is not a matter of setting out the actions and nothing happening. The Action Plan for Jobs was a very successful plan and I hope that this plan will be even more successful.

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