Ms Lisa Clifford:

On the projects in other areas of Dublin city, we saw this issue across the board when assessing the projects last year. We were massively oversubscribed for the amount of money we had and we had to make decisions on the focus of the projects in the second call for applications. Our initial focus was on moving into the urban core and then moving out. Where we had to make decisions in different local authority areas about which projects to fund as part of that call, we applied that approach universally. We targeted the core first, so projects in the core would have been successful, with a view to moving out as further calls are announced. As Ms Graham said, our next focus will be on town centres but we recognise that there is a lot of work still to be done in the cities. There will be a call focusing on the cities. Given the scale of the projects that were approved as part of the second call, we need to get those up and running first. We need to focus the metropolitan local authorities on getting those projects activated, moving and into construction. We can then change our focus to look where we need to go next. As Ms Graham mentioned earlier, one of the things we want to do is work more collaboratively with the local authorities in future calls to target areas where applications have not come forward yet or have not been funded yet but where we know we need to invest.