Mr. Kevin Kelly:

To refer to Deputy Grealish's earlier question, of course the issue of any shortfall in funding and how it might be made up is being raised in discussions with the Department.

With regard to Inis Oírr, we have been in correspondence and discussion with the Department. The project has been given the go-ahead. We are progressing it and taking up from where we left off with the consultants. There is some updating of the environmental reports required. Obviously, we have been through the planning process. There is a lack of clarity around the Inis Meáin project at the moment. I have been in correspondence with the island community on that in the past week. Unfortunately, we lost a colleague recently who was heavily involved in the discussions in respect of those two projects. We are just picking that up again now. Inis Oírr is progressing ahead and, from my perspective, further clarity is required in respect of Inis Meáin.