Mr. Gareth McMahon:

I appreciate Senator Coffey's concern about the link between the county council and the community. I am an employee of Monaghan County Council. Maybe the fact that I am here alongside Ms McHugh shows that we are working, and we certainly try to work, very closely with local communities. We try to take the ideas from the local community, and then it is our role as council officials to try to source the funding to deliver the projects in association with the local groups. We try to do that and there are challenges with that.