Ms Oonagh Duggan:

Additional funding through the Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment, which provides some core funding for non-governmental organisations such as ours to carry out work, is very important. We would also like to see a separate fund through which NGOs could access matching funding for measures such as Leader projects. When it comes to Leader and other big projects, we are often constrained in tapping into large-scale funding because we cannot provide matching funding. It should not be too difficult to overcome such funding constraints, but they must be overcome.