Mr. Brian Smyth:

I thank the Senator for her question. We would be delighted if every county or local development company in the country got €100,000 each, but if we add that up, it is quite a big bill. It is an awful lot more than the Department. We have suggested that and the reality is that it is probably not going to happen. We are a local development company, members of the LDCN network, as are south Kerry, north Kerry and Duhallow. We work very closely with about 18 of the local development companies that refer clients. We use the framework of those local development companies, the connections they have locally, to find farmers, commission placements and support the cohort of people they work with through the social inclusion programme, the workability programme and so on. We are very aligned and collaborate hugely with all the local development companies. We are one. We just had the lead on this project. South West Mayo Development Company, Waterford LEADER Partnership and West Limerick Resources are our contractors. They have an employee in their companies facilitating the hub in their regions. We would like nothing more than if they got €100,000 each, plus Roscommon, Sligo and Cavan, but we do not believe it is going to happen. We are delighted that Kerry does----