Mr. Ray O'Leary:

It was up to local authorities themselves to decide if they were willing. The LIS-type funding was available as an option for local authorities to use out of their overall grant for regional and local roads. We did not carve out the money at the centre or have it managed centrally. It was part of the overall pot local authorities could choose to fund depending on what the demands were in the local area. The same applied to the community involvement scheme.