Mr. Kenneth Jordan:

It requires recruitment, etc. Hopefully, we will be able to hit the ground running in 2025 with a bit of work done in 2024 on funding. It would be the same funding in the sense that it will be what we currently give out to local authorities for overhead. A local authority getting a €5 million RRDF project might get a very large overhead with that. However, as the Cathaoirleach said, if a local authority does not have an RRDF project, then there are no overheads. We need to try to share that out more fairly among all the local authorities.

I should also have said there was a CCMA paper on this which helped to move that discussion along. We are on the same page as the local authorities on this. As the Cathaoirleach said, they see the enormous benefits with these schemes. We are trying to make sure everybody gets some of that benefit.