Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister and I spoke briefly earlier about the new version of the Action Plan for Rural Development , which is in preparation. I ask him to outline the timeline for that and state when he sees it being published. To go back to other Departments, the Minister also said, "We cannot allow other Departments to throw everything over to my Department. There is a bit of that happening at the moment [...]" He said that last July; I got the exact phrase. Is he looking for further responsibilities and further budgets to be transferred officially into his Department as part of the action plan?

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