Mr. Mark Keaveney:

I have a small point to add to that. At the risk of reiterating what was already said, the PPNs work because of the people involved and the relationships built up. Also over time in Roscommon, there has been a building up of town teams. The people in town teams are also involved in PPN groups and communities that form the PPNs. The Chair mentioned that a little bit of money leads to a little bit more capacity. That is what built up the very effective PPN network in Roscommon. With regard to the TRO post, the critical thing for it as far as I can see and the way it works in Roscommon very well, is that the TRO is not a post or a person by him or herself. In Roscommon, the TRO is part of the regeneration economic team. That means it is a shared resource. Instead of one person trying to make contact with five other departments, there is one person in a team of ten and they all work together as one. That is crucial to making the TRO post work and to making the town centre first policy effective in Roscommon. Indeed outside of the town centre first policy, it feeds into all the other funding streams that we have. There is cross-pollination and they are all similar objectives. We are all working towards the same plans overall. That was the main point I wanted to make.