Mr. Shane Tiernan:

Certainly. I might share this answer with my colleagues. As I said in my opening piece, since 2014 the local authorities have had a changed face in respect of their interaction with communities. Their linkages to economic and community development have been hugely enhanced thanks to changing policy. We cannot do it alone. Local authorities have 1,100 services. There is a directory online showing 1,100 services across all the divisions. For that to work and for us to have the funding to stretch across 1,100 services, we very much need buy-in from the ground up. This is what I said about the PPNs playing such a pivotal part when the right combination is there. That means for us as a local authority - from me right down - getting out there to meet the groups and the people and to encourage them. The importance of having a strong PPN facilitator who knows where groups can feel discommoded, where their concerns are forgotten or can come from and what is about but also letting them see tangible results and successes, is paramount. I also then push back a little and say it is also about the groups having the right members on the PPNs. I say that because I often have noticed, when you go into a particular meeting and without characterising this too strongly, how a detractor can take the energy out of the room. That is important. In reality the majority are in a different vein but we need to realise that. We have to be collaborative in that there has to be positive energy coming to the PPN, coming to the room and allowing us to be the conduit or connector to these groups. Be it through funding, policies or mechanisms, we have to be able to allow their development in that collaborative way. I do not want to hear, "why is the council not", what I want to hear is "what can do with the council to make this work." I will pass this question to my two colleagues but we have made great inroads in recent years, particularly in the development of our new local economic community plan, which Ms Ní Chuinn led on and where the PPN played a pivotal role in formulating as a strategy document.

I will finish on this point, which brings another element into the picture but we took an approach with our local development company, Roscommon LEADER Partnership and with our newly established climate action team in the lovely setting of Lough Key Forest Park. I am promoting Roscommon again. Last week, we decided to have a triple-policy launch night to launch our new climate action plan for the county, our local development strategy and our local economic and community plan, LECP. The room was buzzing, we filled the place out and we were over capacity. People were really energised. It was not just more documents and reports; it was real tangible plans that are going to shape Roscommon to be a really strong county in the future. Is there anything Ms Ní Chuinn could add to that?