Mr. Paddy Mahon:

I will pass over to Mr. Brannigan in a second. There are 26 town regeneration offices across the local authority sector and they are I think co-funded by the Department of housing and the Department of rural and community development. Some 25 town centre first plans have been developed.

In our case in Longford, we have a town centre first plan in place for Longford and some of the recommendations of that plan are being implemented. I will ask Mr. Brannigan to cover that in a moment. We are working on the town centre first plan, with support from the Department, to address in an holistic way the revitalisation of our town centres to tackle dereliction, vacancy and the revitalisation of the new economic reality of our towns in rural Ireland. I will pass to Mr. Brannigan for a more detailed response.