Today is an historic day for the city and county of Limerick as the 40 km Limerick greenway has opened along the old Great Southern Railways line. This is part of a broad vision and network of greenways that will link counties Kerry, Clare, Tipperary and Limerick, with Limerick city as the hub. We hope to bring the greenway back into Limerick city and be able to extend it through east Clare up to Scarriff and, in the long run, down to Cahir in Tipperary. These greenways will serve community transport in terms of people being able to get from village to village. There is a significant case for them in the context of rural regeneration and, of course, they will be biodiversity corridors as well. Will the Tánaiste and the Government support continued investment in rural sustainable infrastructure such as greenways and will he ensure that small and medium enterprises in rural areas are in a position to take advantage of the economic opportunities?

I thank the Deputy. I am a huge fan of greenways. All Members have seen the enormous success the Great Western Greenway has been in Mayo, as has the Déise greenway in Waterford. I have been on the great southern trail with Deputy Griffin and the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, on a few occasions and I was delighted to hear that it is now being opened and extended. It is a long time since I was fully across the project. I dealt with it while I was Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. Like the Deputy, I am a huge supporter of greenways. We need to make sure we get them to go ahead and that we work with landowners and so on to make sure there are no missing links between them. Of course, a wonderful greenway yet to be developed is the one in south Kerry. I look forward to seeing it being developed soon.