Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It has been my pleasure to travel to Waterford a few times and I will be delighted to get back down again to see more of the projects. The good news is that I will be announcing more projects early next year. The applications have not closed for measures two and three. They will be closing on 27 October. They will be coming in at the end of October and then they will be assessed. We will announce the successful applications in the first quarter. As I said, get the applications in, because they are a great asset to the whole area. They do bring people in. In particular, the forest walks are becoming very popular. Adventure tourism is the way forward. We have a lot of natural amenities. We need to build on those and bring more people into the various areas. Of course, they are very lucky in Waterford because they have a coastline as well. We do not have that in Monaghan.

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