I express my gratitude to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, for visiting County Leitrim on Friday last to inspect a number of projects.

He should have stayed there.

Is Senator Michael Comiskey serious?

Wait until Senator Terry Leyden gets the good news.

The projects were funded through the Leitrim Development Company. The Minister visited Tullaghan and Kinlough in County Leitrim. That is the good news. A total of €3 million has been spent in north Leitrim, in particular, in the past few months. Some of these projects have been finished. Working is proceeding on more of them and will finish up soon and they will be officially opened shortly. I call on the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Jimmy Deenihan, and the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brian Hayes, to look at the possibility of giving us funding for a car park at Seán Mac Diarmada's cottage. There is great potential there, especially now that we are coming up to the 2016 commemorations. This will provide a significant opportunity for tourism in County Leitrim, a county that badly needs more revenue from tourism. Of course, it is close to the Wild Atlantic Way and the famous Ballroom of Romance. The more we can bring into this area, the better. Certainly it will be good for County Leitrim, as well as County Sligo, County Donegal and all the other counties around it. I hope in the near future we will get a meeting with the Minister and the Minister of State to look at the possibility of a funding allocation for the rest of the projects that have to be developed. That is the good news.

I congratulate Senator Michael Comiskey. Did he thank the Minister for reducing the number of councillors in County Leitrim to 18?