Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms O'Donoghue and her colleagues. I have a number of questions but I would like first to refer to the reduction in SWA payments from €911 million in 2011 to €718 million this year. She sounded that theme elsewhere in her contribution and it is evidenced in the figures. I would like to tease this out because it is evident that far from hardship being lifted from the population, increasingly, individuals and families are coming under significant financial strain. Will Ms O'Donoghue explain the reduction of €200 million under the SWA scheme in two years?