Mr. Garrett Stokes:

I will begin in response to Senator Coffey, whom I thank for his words of support. I totally agree on the communications side of things. We need a greater alignment across all the agencies with a stronger focus on indigenous local businesses. We do not acknowledge or advertise that as much, but anything we can all do together is beneficial.

On the allocations, we mentioned 79% in our statement, and all the regional and county breakdowns are in the overall larger document which we sent the committee. To give a flavour of it, one statistic is that if Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick are removed, it leaves 60% of applications as "real rural", if one can call them that. We have a breakdown by region in the report which the committee has, which we can reshare if necessary.