Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister referred to the LIS. Did he go to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, and tell them that if they were willing to put €3 million or €4 million into the LIS, he would put in the same amount? These bodies could undertake certain road projects and the Minister of State could undertake others. That is the way we worked it. We used to wait until they received the allocation from the Department for the LIS and matched it euro for euro and doubled it in CLÁR programme areas. Does the Minister of State intend to talk to agencies such as the HSE and so forth? There are other types of community infrastructure, aside from footpaths, roads and street lighting. It is usually harder to secure a refurbished health facility in a rural area with a small population. One is always told about the cost benefits. This changes the cost benefits for the HSE because it would be at half the price. The reason there is no health centre in Inishbofin is that when the matching funding was pulled years ago, the planning and so forth was not undertaken. Will the Minister of State approach a wide range of agencies? We had an arrangement with the electricity supply network and so forth.