Brendan Daly (Fianna Fail)

I emphasise the necessity to put a new national development plan in place and to commence it now to deal with the shortcomings in the existing arrangement. It is unreal that substantial available funding has not been spent. How can we go back to the EU seeking additional funding if we have not spent what is earmarked? There is an urgency to expedite these plans and the provision of sewerage facilities, harbour facilities and marinas, as Senator O'Toole said, such as at Ballyvaughan which has been crying out for a marina for the past 20 years. Funding has not been spent while huge projects such as these could be developed which would have enormous benefits for less developed areas of west Clare.