Infrastructural projects and public private partnership are buzzwords that have even been heard at county council meetings in recent times. It is regrettable that PPPs did not appear long ago. Every year, those of us who are members of local authorities see the same thing happening: a major sewerage scheme in the county, based on the national development plan, plus two small sewerage schemes. Lack of sewerage schemes is a major problem in rural Ireland. While a large amount of money is being spent on smaller communities in terms of landscaping them and building lovely stone walls and modern footpaths, the population is decreasing because of the lack of the essential component in the first instance, namely, a good sewerage scheme. As a result of a sewerage scheme being put in place, houses are built and the local school is then not under threat and the community knits together.