Mr. Fintan O'Brien:

I will follow up on the point raised about communication and I agree with Ms Graham that it is key. We have quite structured engagement with the local authority sector but the Senator's point about wider consultation and communications is well made. I note, as a point of interest, that the Department of Rural and Community Development is conducting an online event this week for a wide range of stakeholders at which we will present to as wide an audience as possible our schemes and initiatives and the opportunities that exist. We will present those schemes as a coherent whole to make sure all the relevant stakeholders are aware of the situation.

I will come back to a question the Senator asked during the previous round of questions which we did not have time to answer. The health check model will be a central part of the implementation of the town centre first strategy. It is about building on that Heritage Council model and to roll it out in towns because it is a useful model that has worked in other places.