Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The issue of funding arises. Obviously, if something is to be done, money is needed. One of the associations, in its presentation, raised the issue of accessing funding from the European Investment Bank. Are the witnesses in favour of the establishment of trusts within local authority areas to access that funding - in other words, that it is off the State balance sheet in terms of accessing money that is available from the European Investment Bank and other sources?