Michael Comiskey (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I join my colleagues in welcoming the Cabinet's visit to Lissadell in County Sligo on Wednesday. It will be an historic occasion. The members of Cabinet will be visiting the home of Countess Markievicz. I want to pay tribute to Deputy John Perry who was instrumental in arranging this visit and put a good deal of work into it along with the Walsh family. I visited Lissadell in recent weeks since the visit of Prince Charles. It is a great place to go. It used to attract approximately 40,000 visitors who also visited the north-west coast, right along the Wild Atlantic Way. Lissadell House highlights once again what we can offer along the Wild Atlantic Way, taking in counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal.

I join my colleague, Senator Landy, in welcoming the funding allocated to all the county councils last week. Those allocations will provide funding for the local improvement scheme and the construction industry scheme, which is something on which we have all been lobbied during the past year to 18 months. It is important that money will be allocated to those schemes.