Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 445: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the provision of a comprehensive, integrated, environmental monitoring programme as recommended under the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the draft Rural Development Programme 2007 to 2013 will be included in the final version of the document. [42908/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The draft Rural Development Programme together with the Ex Ante Evaluation and the Strategic Environmental Assessment was sent to the EU Commission in December and awaits its approval. The programme points out that the Department of Agriculture and Food — as managing authority — and the Programme Monitoring Committee will have responsibility for the monitoring and evaluation system. That system will be based on the EU common monitoring and evaluation framework, which provides for a comprehensive integrated approach and will ensure that the recommendation from the strategic environmental assessment is addressed.