Mr. Noel Spillane:

I agree that it should be the one company because one has the potential to avoid duplication, where that is the case. I will provide an example. The town and village renewal scheme is delivered by local authorities but under the Leader programme, there is also a rural towns scheme.

There is potential duplication. We welcome the introduction of CLÁR. One of the measures under CLÁR will be playgrounds. We are getting expressions of interest under Leader for playgrounds but the CLÁR programme is coming through the local authorities. If it were coming through the local development companies, one would work with them both hand in hand to ensure there is no duplication. We are taking a silo approach.