Mr. Coilín O'Reilly:

As I said at the beginning, community response centres were not a concept. We had never been in the situation where we were 20-odd days without power in parts of the country. It had grown organically. I accept that there were some community groups that had stepped up late on the Saturday. By the Sunday, we had approximately 15 of them throughout the country. Co-ordinated through local authorities, we had 400 by later in the week. It is a new concept. As the Deputy can see from the document, we have only finalised and agreed it. We are finalising the generators. Within two weeks, we are going to have a full list of where those centres are nationally and where they will stand up. Mr. Ó Domhnaill has a very good relationship with Galway County Council and probably engages with the community development staff or whatever staff there are on the ground. Those are our networks. Those are the people we use, whether it is our heritage or the staff that Deputy Stanley talked about earlier. A lot of them multitask. When they are out, they are out preparing and meeting community groups. We are not where we would like to be, but in a short period of time we will have a clear list of those buildings. The next thing that will happen is that we will begin wiring those buildings to accept generators in advance of any storm.