Ms Laura Starnes:

The single best thing that happened to my community in Laois was developing and fundraising for our community alert group and community CCTV. All that work that went into getting that system up and running brought the 157 families in our community together. We met regularly at fundraisers and meetings. However, there is an issue with the new scheme available to fund community CCTV. There are three groups in Laois which have carried out some fundraising but they are held up because of a delay in authorisation for the schemes’ funding. That is a shame because one gets a community together but then it has to hang back waiting for funding to be authorised.