John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)

It is relevant to the issue of assets, and many others, that the implementation phase runs for a year, particularly because there is a wide range of issues involved.

We have been considering this issue for a few months. The Senator referred specifically to the McCarthy report. It is important to point out that the funding made available to our Department in today's budget allows the single integrated programme to go ahead. If what was recommended in the McCarthy report had been implemented today we would not be having this debate. There is adequate time to deal with the issue. I encourage all groups to accept this is about community development. We have a variety of structures and we are trying to implement a single integrated programme which will benefit the communities we all strive to serve.