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

The subcontractors would queue up for their cheques and they would all go home with them at lunchtime. It is a blunt instrument and a direct approach. It would save a good deal of trouble and many subcontractors, and subcontractors of subcontractors, would know that money had arrived on the site that day and it was time for them to get paid.