Michael Comiskey (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Wait until Senator Leyden gets the good news.

The projects were funded through the Leitrim Development Company. The Minister visited Tullaghan and Kinlough in Leitrim. This is the good news. A total of €3 million has been spent in north Leitrim in particular over the past number of months. Some of these projects have been finished. Working is proceeding on more of them and will finish up soon, and those will be officially opened shortly. I call on the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Deenihan, and the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brian Hayes, to look at the possibility of giving us funding for a car park at Seán Mac Diarmada's cottage. There is great potential there, especially now that we are coming up to the 2016 commemorations. This will provide a significant opportunity for tourism in County Leitrim, a county that badly needs more revenue from tourism. Of course, it is close to the Wild Atlantic Way and the famous Ballroom of Romance. The more we can bring into this area, the better. Certainly it will be good for Leitrim, as well as Sligo, Donegal and all the other counties around it. Hopefully, in the near future, we will get a meeting with the Ministers, Deputies Deenihan and Brian Hayes, to look at the possibility of a funding allocation for the rest of the projects that have to be developed. That is the good news.