Ms Anne Graham:

I am not sure where that expectation came from because we have indicated to the committee and publicly our programme of town services, which is based on towns with no service. We have a programme we need to deliver. It starts with Portlaoise, Mullingar, Ennis and Letterkenny and we have to work through those service deliveries, subject to the funding and resources being available, before we are in a position to move to any other towns. We never gave any commitment as regards delivery of a town service. Some planning work may have been commenced with the local authority but, at this stage, we could not give any commitments to a town service for Newbridge or Kildare.