Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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94. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will have the CEDRA report costed and provide the money to implement the various proposals contained in the report in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48652/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The full list of the recommendation in the CEDRA report are set out it following attached link:An examination of these recommendations 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.

While statutory responsibility and funding for the CEDRA actions remains with the relevant lead Departments, achieving its vision requires an integrated response from a wide variety of agencies. For that reason, in July this year, the Government appointed Ann Phelan, T.D, as Minister of State with specific responsibility for co-ordinating the CEDRA agenda. As its effective implementation requires an integrated response from a wide variety of agencies, Minister Phelan has established and is chairing a high level Inter-Departmental Group (IDG), involving all the main departmental actors, to assist her in achieving an integrated platform for its implementation.