Mr. Simon Murray:

On Leader, we are all saying the combination of everything under one company would be great. In the last round it was not even calculated or weighted in the scoring. It did not matter if one was running the Central Bank. What one had achieved in one's company history was not included or weighted. What happened in Galway is very complex, and, I presume, the same happened in Cork, given that we are in the same situation, to a certain degree. We never sought hinterland in Cork, Mayo or anywhere. We wanted the islands, like we had before and the time before that. However, the system was enforced on us, and the only way to get the Cork islands was to get the hinterland with it. It was the same in Mayo and Donegal. In Galway, it was the whole county and we went in under the local community development committee, bells and all. The award was given to a company that operates only in Connemara. Now, the rest of Galway has to go back out there again. It is ridiculous. It is crucial to what has been mentioned already regarding the Leader process. I would like to hear, as Deputy Michael Collins said earlier, the answers to how these decisions were arrived at and what backs them up. In our experience, it is very shaky ground.