Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the CEDRA report will be costed and implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48583/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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An examination of the 34 recommendations in the CEDRA report, link attached, will illustrate that, in the majority of instances, additional resources are not required to implement CEDRA proposals. Instead the major and consistent message of the report is that a more focused and integrated delivery of the existing services is required to energise rural economic development and to achieve more effective impacts from the funding already provided. In view of the nature of the recommendations, it is not practicable, ex ante, to cost them.

As mentioned in my reply to your recent Parliamentary Question No. 218 on 25 November 2014 (44996/14), implementation of the CEDRA report has commenced and is being directed through the CEDRA Interdepartmental Group established an d chaired by Minister Phelan. This IDG, which involves all the departmental actors with statutoryresponsibility and funding for the CEDRA actions, is designed to achieve an integrated platform for implementation of the report. This IDG is finalising its multi-sectoral CEDRA work programme with specific actions and timelines as well as a priority programme.