Ms Úna Ní Chuinn:

I might add to that, and I thank the Senator for the questions. There has been an emphasis from the Department on communities developing their own plans. That is a hard sell to communities because at the end of the day, all they are left with is a document and nobody is putting a shovel in the ground. We are leaning towards the winning of that argument now because of the foresight around the town centre first plans. In the case of Strokestown, its plan contains eight transformational projects, some of which the chief referred to and one of which has recently been funded by heritage funding through the heritage town initiative. A plan is being developed to repurpose buildings in Strokestown while being cognisant of the heritage value of the town. It is tremendously powerful for us when we are carving a road to encourage people to develop plans to see the Heritage Council backing something we have identified and to see the Department coming forward with supports for what has been done. It is recognising that we have identified projects and is helping us to deliver them with communities. It is about finishing that circle and in doing so, Castlerea and other towns around the country will be next out of the blocks. They can see Strokestown delivering something, having gone through the pain of developing the plan and having gone through projects that were not easily palatable. We recently did a round of talks with town teams and we always tell them that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs. Even in Roscommon town, where we did fantastic work for the public realm, people were discommoded. We use that word. People have to be discommoded in order to develop something fantastic. We now have something fantastic now because of people being discommoded. It is about bringing people with you while you discommode them. It is about creating linkages and how they come about.