Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The rural regeneration scheme is a ten-year programme with €1 billion. We have already had the first round, which was allocated in May this year. The second round has closed for category 1 applications and the approvals will be announced in November. Immediately after that we will announce again for category 2. That is for the funding to get the projects up and ready to make them category 1 projects.

As for the IT mechanisms, I do not know but I will get back to the Senator on that question.