Mr. Allan Mulrooney:

Awareness was mentioned a couple of times. It is really important, certainly for us. Across the region, we have a memorandum of understanding in place with Roscommon LEADER, for example, and we have seen what we are lending and supporting in Roscommon increase exponentially. That is probably the best way of putting it. We are now trying to ascertain how we can expand in this regard across all the new LEADER companies. However, the question remains as to whether we are doing enough, because those concerned are still coming up against the same issue. The idea of trialling a project across several counties is very interesting, certainly regarding regional transition and looking particularly at the north west, where the grants are not being drawn down at the same level as in other parts. It is a question of whether there is an opportunity to mitigate the risk by taking several counties and determining after a year or two whether there have been defaults or issues after front-loading the grants. That could certainly be worth looking at as well.