Mr. Hugh Creegan:

For the smaller scale interventions, the Senator is right, there needed to be upskilling in the local authorities. We have done a lot of training and webinars and provided guidance materials to local authorities to do a lot of those things. They are difficult and resource-intensive. It is actually easier to build a big motorway, having been involved in it, than it is to build some of these smaller things. The amount of engagement with people that is needed is far greater. On the bigger issue about towns in general, I know there is a plan for a demand management policy under preparation with the Department of Transport, which eventually has to go through Government. That would be helpful in giving a policy framework to allow more things to happen, which would probably require training for local authority personnel as well. It would be a vital first step.