Ms M?ire Henry:

I endorse what Dr. Griffin is saying. The URDF and RRDF involve very rigorous processes and there are two categories. The first category allows you to bring the project to detailed design. It is multiagency, so many of the larger issues are looked at at the very beginning. Funding is given to do that initial feasibility and then, if it matches the rigorous auditing and scrutiny by panels of experts, it may be allocated further funding to implement the project. Again what Dr. Griffin has said is very important. So many very good projects have happened or are happening across the country under the town and village renewal scheme, the URDF and the RRDF, so it would be fantastic to have a shared platform of these best practices to show these. It would energise and act as a catalyst for positive energy as well when the it is seen amount of funding that has gone into very high-quality place-making in our towns and villages, including Mayo.