John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will be very brief because I do not want to go over everything I have said. There is no legislation for the Comptroller and Auditor General to do what he does in this regard, and he does actually take it county by county. When it is being taken county by county and all the statistics are accumulated and collated, it is hard to hear that it is not a fair and equitable way to do it. It comes back into the Minister's Department, county by county, as to how the scheme operates in every aspect of its operation, financial and otherwise. I believe this to be very reasonable.