Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----notwithstanding the Minister's commitment. What I hear is the Minister telling me she will have the draft plan. The draft plan was there in October. It remains a draft almost three months later. I presume the Minister has not seen it yet and it has not landed on her desk. She is giving a commitment that it will be published. I would like this clarified. When will the action plan be published? There has never been a policy for the islands. There have been interdepartmental committees and any amount of reports. When I tabled the motion in the Dáil I had them all before me on the day. I emphasise that I do not doubt the commitment of the Minister but we need action. We need a policy. In the meantime decisions are being made on LEADER funding about which the island representatives are most unhappy. They were certainly not positive in the audiovisual Room when they made a presentation there six weeks ago.

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