Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We wrote to them in the last week or so. I know that the County and City Management Association, CCMA, has fully briefed the relevant CEOs over the last period and I am confident there will be buy-in. I know there will be buy-in. There have been preliminary discussions and we made a formal offer in the last week or so, so we expect positive responses from the local authorities over the next period. The work to date on developing the concept of the Atlantic economic corridor has been positive. The CCMA is represented on the AEC task force. We have had a number of meetings. The next will be within the next couple of weeks and will take place in Limerick. We have had work to do over the last while to get this into the mindset of local authority members, Departments, agencies and all bodies along the west coast that have involvement in developing and growing the job creation potential of the region, including the universities and institutes of technology. I believe that buy-in is happening and am confident that the CEOs of the local authorities in question will play their part and fully engage with this proposal.

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