Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will. I was in Dún Laoghaire with fisheries local action groups, FLAGs. Deputy McConalogue knows about this because a group in Donegal covers the north west. We allocated funding from the rural development programme of over €12 million to the group. That is a multiple of what it received under the last rural development programme for rural peripheral coastal locations.

I acknowledge that Leader funding has been reduced, but FLAG funding has increased significantly. I appreciate that Deputy McGrath does not have-----

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