Mr. Fintan O'Brien:

From our point of view there is a rigorous examination of them and there is a body that sits over that assessment process, which draws people from a number of different departments and an external quality assessor to make sure that assessment process is robust.

In respect of the overall balance, it was the case that not all counties got funding the last time and that happens to be the case with some of these funding announcements. I was looking at this detail the other day regarding the overall spread of the RRDF project and it is spread quite well across the country. I do not have that visualisation of the map in front of me at present but I could certainly send on the details to the Deputy of that spread of the RRDF funding across the country, if that would be helpful.

As for the next stage of the RRDF, we currently have applications for category 2 funding. The category 1 funding is for the big, on-the-ground shovel-ready projects but we have now almost finalised the assessment of the category 2 funding ,which get projects ready for category 1. We expect the next round of funding to be announced in the next couple of weeks.