Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will not burst the Minister's bubble but I refer to the rural regeneration and development fund. The Minister and Deputy Michael Collins had an interaction, rather than a discussion, on this earlier. The reality is that only 38 of 280 applications were deemed successful for project funding. The Minister has a concept of a project being shovel ready, and I welcome that, but is the Department's understanding of shovel ready different from that of local authorities? There is some sort of difficulty in the application process. The number of projects that are unsuccessful is incredibly high.

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