Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We can come back on that. The ESB will not be given extra resources to administer the grant and it will have to absorb that cost in its allocation. The water conservation grant will be done through a regulation.

The Leader programme has been very successful and has made a great contribution throughout the country with regard to volume of schemes. Deputies opposite would agree with that comment. We can learn from the process and I have very specific ideas about it. I am working very closely with the Minister of State, Deputy Phelan, in this regard. The bottom-up approach, dictated through a process from Europe, is good and we will see the results of that in the near future as the process kicks off quite soon.