Ms Joan Martin:

Most of the Louth-specific questions related to page five of our statement on the tourism and heritage action plan. Louth County Council's bid for Monasterboice might be gilding the lily a little bit. Monasterboice is one of a number of Christian heritage sites that have been put forward as tentative world heritage sites by the Government, which is the first stage of going for UNESCO world heritage site status. There are clusters of such sites around the country. Monasterboice, with its significant tower and high cross, is part of that cluster. That is really as far as it has gone. The running on that is to be done by the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.

As for the greenway, the fact is that at the moment we are finding that 25% of users are cyclists. The expansion of the greenway under the INTERREG V programme to Newry was carried out under the sustainable transport priority of that programme. It is very much about modal shift. That particular greenway and the business case that was made for the INTERREG money was about trying to encourage people who perhaps worked in Newry and lived in Omeath or Carlingford to take to the bicycle instead of the car. Cycling in terms of modal shift, to get people out of cars, is something that we will work on further as the new part develops. Construction on that has not commenced yet. At the moment it is used for leisure cycling, where people are either there for the weekend and hire or borrow a bicycle, or come with their bicycle on the back of their car. Some of the schools in the area are using it to take kids on a cycle. The cyclists are all kinds of people, but there is that attempt with the greenway, as with other greenways, to achieve that modal shift, particularly now when we are trying to move into the sustainable transport end of things.