Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

I thank the Senator. I certainly will take her up on that offer. I will ask somebody from my office to engage with her. As I said, we have had meetings and both the Minister of State, Deputy Buttimer, and I will be having further meetings. In our Department, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy Foley, the Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, and the Minister of State, Deputy Murnane O'Connor, are focused on assisting. We will take the Senator up on her offer.

It is also worth noting, however, that there are other funding streams. Women's sheds are able to apply to the local enhancement programme, which will be worth €7 million in 2025, for running costs as well as small capital works. The Minister of State, Deputy Buttimer, and I will shortly be announcing the results of the local enhancement programme for 2025. SICAP supports women's sheds, and for major capital, LEADER is also available. I encourage every local shed to engage with its public participation network and its local development company. I know we ask volunteers to do a lot. I really appreciate all those who take on the mantle of organising sheds. There are so many people who want them but not too many who are willing to take on the mantle of organising them. We are not insisting on the structure for the sake of it, but it is our experience that a national structure is a much more effective way of funding. It is not for the want of funding, but to get the structure in place. I look forward to working with Senator Byrne to do that.