Ms Gillian Buckley:

We can get bridging against LEADER programmes so that would be the case. In our experience rural communities can coalesce much more easily than larger urban centres which do not have the community infrastructure. They have people on the ground but more formal intervention is needed for more deprived areas to access those kind of facilities. They do not have the community leadership that exists in rural communities where people know each other better anyway. Yes, that is what we have found.