Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. There also appears to be a substantial reduction in the level of funding provided to local authorities for minor works. Again, I will refer to a three year framework, namely, 2014, 2015 and 2016. If we look at 2014, the allocation was €9 million. In 2015, it was €16 million. However, according to the figures I have, in 2016 it was down to €3 million. The level of funding shows a sharp decline. If we take that same period, the number of proposed projects increased from 27 in 2014 to 55 in 2015 and to 83 in 2016. How can those figures be reconciled? Is it that the OPW is carrying out the works itself as opposed to funding the local authority for minor works?