Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 157: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a progress report on the State's attempts to recoup assets invested in the last Leader programme 2000 to 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9338/09]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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All funding applications by project promoters that were approved by the Local Action Groups under the LEADER Programmes were on the basis that investment was targeted at those activities which were capable of being self-sustaining for a period of 5 years or more. In the normal course the State would not be engaged in a programme to recoup assets developed by project promoters under the programmes.

In the context of the conclusion of the cohesion process, however, my Department is currently in contact with the cohesing LEADER groups and Partnerships to ascertain the status of assets held by the groups themselves with a view to the protection of any State and Community interests either through their transfer to the relevant local integrated structure or other means as appropriate.