Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

I thank Senator Nelson Murray. I endorse everything she has said.

Fundraising is important. It is very hard work, but it makes an important contribution, financially and otherwise. If a community buys into a project through fundraising, it will succeed. Speaking of fundraising, it would be wrong of me not to wish our colleague, Senator Costello, every success as she takes to the stage next weekend in her lip-sync fundraiser. I wish the Senator good luck with that.

We are working on the structure for the national women's sheds alongside the Minister of State, Deputy Murnane O'Connor, in the Department of Health. Our officials have been in touch with them. They are certainly making progress. I do not want to put a deadline on it so that we can get it working well together.

I will give the Senator a sense of some of the allocations in Meath that we have been able to do. Under the community centre investment fund, we allocated €20,000 to the Trim Family Resource Centre to fund the replacement of windows, bathrooms, flooring and insulation. We have also allocated €300,000 in Athboy and €90,000 for halls in Moynalty and Longwood. As the Senator will be aware, under the rural regeneration and development fund, we have invested almost €4.5 million in Trim to redevelop the existing library and the adjacent chapel.

I encourage the Senator to look at existing buildings and spaces within her community that we might consider partnering in. As I said, Senator Duffy has led on the redevelopment of an existing old school which has now become a centre for seven or eight different community organisations. It is definitely a model worth looking at.