Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has just introduced new information. I have been at public meetings in Connemara with Fóram Chonamara and with organisations who are represented by it. Their understanding was that the local development companies would remain in existence and that the work they are doing would continue, but that the cheque book would be with the county councils and they would pay the local company to keep people employed in their local areas. The Minister is now telling me he has not decided.