Mr. Michael D'Arcy:

I have one clarification about PEACEPLUS, this time round there are designated areas, which are the six Northern Ireland Border counties but this time there is a greater emphasis on what is called the functional area so long as the benefit of the project flows back to the designated area. It is important that functional area is understood across the rest of the island, like in Clare, because I got the impression being involved in it that there was a feeling that it was only for the Border counties in the Republic. It is important that it is understood this time round that is not necessarily the case and, therefore, more organisations should at least look at it. It might not be that there is a direct benefit that can be seen for Clare, but there could be a benefit for Clare in having a connectivity through this with the other part of the island. That is perhaps a useful way of thinking about it and looking at it and at each of the strands and where it fits in because it does merge both the economic side and INTERREG and the PEACE relationship developing embedding of stability side that was always the PEACE programme, as such.