Martin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein)
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248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out his views on the statement by the Minister of State with responsibility for rural affairs to the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht to the effect that she was recently assigned to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government; and the person who assigned the Minister of State. [14016/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I welcome the announcement of an Taoiseach on 10 December 2014 to assign additional responsibilities to Minister of State Phelan at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. Her additional remit which involves special responsibility for local, community, rural economic development issues and implementation of the CEDRA report at that department will provide her with a fuller and more integrated scope to develop rural communities. The new functions are in addition to her existing responsibilities at this Department and at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.