Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

When it comes to outdoor recreation walks, Coillte is working with us well. They are also identifying commercial activities that are there. We visited Rossmore Forest Park in County Monaghan in March. It is an excellent example. There is a licensed coffee truck there. Coillte also have the space to consider ziplines and so on that would increase the visitor experience. Rossmore has experienced one of the biggest increases in visitor numbers over the past five years. Where it has the space, Coillte is willing to look at developing those sorts of facilities. There are other businesses in some of these areas and I do not want to displace any of them. Where possible, I am in favour of us doing more to enhance the visitor experience. I have seen examples of successful ORIS projects. Roscommon County Council built a pontoon in Lough Key Forest and Activity Park that is wheelchair accessible. Wheelchair users can use the pontoon to get on a boat. It is a fantastic example. There are wonderful examples all over the country.

The Senator is right that the increase in the CLÁR funding to €100,000 this year has opened up possibilities. There are three streams to CLÁR this year. Measure 1 is developing community amenities and facilities. Measure 2 related to mobility, in particular cancer care, Meals on Wheels, and community transport. Measure 3 is specifically focussed on our islands and community infrastructure and community transport. As part of integration of Roinn na Gaeltachta into the Department, we have given extra allocations to Gaeltacht areas. I will be looking at all measures, including CLÁR, the town and village renewal scheme and ORIS, to see how we can support access for people with physical disabilities but also for people with sensory needs. That goes back to the point made by the Chair earlier about community centres. They were built when in many cases there was no awareness of physical accessibility and definitely no awareness about people's sensory needs. We will examine how we can enhance funding in this area.

I will come back to the Senator on social farming. She has done massive work in this area and I happy to engage with here on how we can provide support. We can support it through LEADER applications that come into the Department. We will be happy to look at any social farming LEADER plans that comes in.

The Minister of State will answer her query on philanthropy.