Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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176. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the monitoring committee of the Action Plan for Rural Development has been set up; when the group will meet; the persons appointed to the group; if the monitoring process for the action plan has begun; the priority actions and milestones that have been identified for the first six-month segment as outlined in the action plan (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22232/17]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Monitoring Committee for the Action Plan for Rural Development has been established and held its first meeting on 23 March 2017. The membership of the Monitoring Committee, which I chair, includes senior representatives from key Government Departments and agencies, other public bodies and rural stakeholders, as well as representatives from the business community. The full list of organisations represented on the Monitoring Committee is provided in the table.

The role of the Monitoring Committee is to monitor progress on all of the commitments in the Action Plan for Rural Development and to identify, and suggest solutions to, any potential obstacles to the delivery of the Action Plan. Progress reports on the implementation of the actions will be published every six months.

My Department is engaging with the organisations responsible for the delivery of the actions in the Plan on an ongoing basis, including in identifying the actions to be delivered in the first six months of this year which will be the focus of the first Progress Report to be published in July.

Monitoring Committee for the Action Plan for Rural Development