Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Precisely. They would know the main contractor got a cheque in the morning and they would want their cheques by lunchtime. Rather than, as Deputy Mathews mentioned, a main contractor saying he is waiting for a quantity surveyor to approve the staged payment and that it is held up for another month and then another month and having all that flouting around, the State body could put a notice on the site to the effect that a cheque for €200,000 arrived this morning.