Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is right. There is linkage being made between the technical arrangements for drawdown into February and as if the programme was being extended into February. It is not. The programme ends in December and it is purely a technical arrangement to access money due to us under the programme. Of course, we will draw down the money that is available to us under the programme but we do not see that as an extension of the programme. We will make our decision clear in advance of 15 December.