Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This relates to a 5% retention by the Commission of rural development programme, RDP, funding. The refund to us is not something that we can anticipate in any given year. While it came through significantly higher than what we had budgeted for in 2016, next year it could be much lower. Actually, sorry, that is wrong. This refers to the 2007 to 2013 RDP and the Commission's final accounting exercise on that. Once the Commission was satisfied that everything had been dealt with properly, it refunded the equivalent of 5% to us.