Mr. Fintan O'Brien:

A couple of strands are important in establishing Town Centre First, TCF. We have given €100,000 to 26 towns to support developing the Town Centre First plan itself. We see that very much as a first phase of that funding. I think the Deputy is referring to funding under the town and village renewal scheme for Naul and Oldtown. I do not see any issue with crossover there.

We have also allocated funding for town regeneration officers in local authorities. We secured that funding in budget 2022. Earlier we talked about the national structures. It is about getting to the final bits of detail and putting them in place. We have funding. We have had very good discussions with the CCMA on how to roll them out. We hope to start to put them in place in the coming weeks. They will be key enablers and key drivers for towns across local authorities in the coming months as we roll TCF out. I hope that addresses the Deputy's question.