Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)

Yes, absolutely. At the end of the day - and it is on in Wexford this year, and it was there last year too - local commercial activity, be it restaurants, hotels, bed-and-breakfasts or camp sites, does exceptionally well. Deputy Brennan referred to approximately 600,000 people being in Wexford town. Deputy Malcolm Byrne will know this too. Wexford has seen a boom in the number of people going there. The ratepayers in County Wexford have benefited, then, as have the ratepayers in County Louth. It is only right that the local authority would invest in the ratepayers. Ratepayers often ask what they get for paying their rates. If they get 600,000 people into their town with their ability to buy runners or a meal or to stay in a hotel, that is surely a good thing.