Dáil debates
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions
Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
11:50 am
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
He put money aside for a shovel-ready project for a pier on Inis Óirr that had planning permission in 2016. It has not started and it is not likely to start, even next year. I will believe projects are shovel-ready when I see them. What is the Minister's definition of a shovel-ready project? My main doubt is that they are as shovel-ready as the words would seem to imply, that is, that a contractor could be put in tomorrow. The Minister might explain the definition of the projects that are ready to be approved rather than refer to the euphemism "shovel-ready" which has become meaningless.
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