Mr. Michael Coyle:

Thank you, Chairman. As you know, I chair the North West Region Cross Border Group, which consists of four councils – Donegal, Strabane, Derry and Limavaddy. Currently, we are involved in INTERREG programmes worth up to €30 million and it does restrict what we can do there. I do not know all the technicalities but I agree with Senator White that we need a timeline. Some of my colleagues have indicated the sort of progress we would like to see. Could I request that the committee would become more than just a champion of the project but it would keep the project live? In the past I have seen projects that were proposed, put to one side, brought off the shelf again and discussed again. We need people to feed in constantly to both Governments. The cross-Border areas have particular problems that one would not have between Dublin and Cork or from Derry to Belfast.