James Bannon (Fine Gael)

It relates to the amendments. The tidy towns scheme is a wonderful scheme that has been in operation for more than 40 years and is still under-funded. Greater encouragement should be given to villages and towns to participate. I hope the BID scheme initiative will lead to greater involvement. To attract towns and villages to become involved in tidy towns scheme etc., more funding needs to be allocated. The funding has stagnated in recent years.