Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

We will be working on it. It is important. Councillors know how important it is. It is a big frustration for councillors and, as Deputy Aird said, it is small communities who really do not see a lot of other impact. On ORIS, it is flexible. We do a lot of work with Coillte. Recreation areas are not just local authority spaces; they are forests. They are some amazing Coillte projects across the country. I was in Jenkinstown and Woodstock, County Kilkenny, this day last week to see what we can do with existing forestry to reimagine it as recreation spaces. The growth in that area, and the number of users since 2020 has been extraordinary. We will be doing more work there. ORIS is important. Through it we work with local authorities. We fund county outdoor recreational plans, and we also fund rural recreational officers in the LCDCs. We had the outdoor recreational conference in Limerick last Thursday with approximately 200 people from all over the country involved in this area. It is one of the best conferences I have been at in terms of the buzz, their plans and ability to think outside the box in the area of expenditure. Spaces that the Deputy and I might not see as recreational can be reimagined as recreational. ORIS is one of our best programmes, but I want to make it as flexible as possible. Local authorities have existing land banks that they can use any time they are rebuilding housing. There is an opportunity now as we go to reopen county development plans. Local authorities will be asked to redesignate housing areas. In redesignating housing land, they also need to include recreational space in that. They also need to have recreational facilities in the plans available for people who are going to live in those areas. Through ORIS we are more than happy to work with local authorities based on their existing plan.