Mr. Ian Talbot:

Yes, and I think we do. There is always more we can do but, again, we have the Atlantic corridor chambers, the Mayo chambers group, and there is also a grouping that has put papers together, the N6-N7 chambers. We are very conscious of all of those. We very actively try to support them in the work they try to do. We are also very focused on the far north west, the Letterkenny and Donegal area, for example. We also engage with the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry, for example on the road link between Monaghan and Strabane in Northern Ireland, which is not a particular focus of the authorities in Northern Ireland which are more focused on the links from Belfast laterally rather than those cutting across. We are very focused on these things but I thank the Deputy for pointing out that there is more we can do and we would love to do more in that regard.

If the Deputy is happy for me to move on to other points, on the whole area of climate change, we have not looked overly closely at the impact of fines and how the business community will deal with them. We believe our members are very open to dealing with climate change. There is a sense of frustration among our members at times at the length of time it can take to get really important planning approvals in respect of energy, the national grid and those sorts of things. Our members would be very supportive of efforts by organisations to put in proper infrastructure which would help us meet our climate change targets. To go into the detail of our pre-budget submission again, we have many recommendations on areas such as electric vehicles, the electrification of the public transport fleet and the Government using Government procurement and the e-tender platform to facilitate and encourage more environmentally friendly purchasing by Government itself. There are many things which we are trying to introduce to the debate to try to improve things.