Rathcormack Services Extension, involves the extension of water, drainage & sewerage services for the village, and also incorporated in the project in the installation of a new Wastewater Treatment plant for the village. The Serviced land Initiative was introduced nationally in late 1997 as a measure to tackle pressures on housing supply by increasing the availability of serviced residential land. Under the Initiative water and sewerage facilities are provided to service zoned residential lands to allow them to be opened up for housing development.

The objective of the Technology Transfer Strengthening Initiative (TTSI) is to increase the level of intellectual property (IP) transferred to industry from research in Higher Education Institutions and to facilitate the development of high quality and effective systems and policies to ensure that the IP is identified, protected and transferred, where possible into companies in Ireland.