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

We had no certainty as to when the Commission would pay us. If we had put a figure into the 2016 Estimates and the refund had not come through, we would have been before the select committee with a Supplementary Estimate. It is accountancy. It is money that we had paid out to individual applicants but which the Commission only refunded to us once it has signed off on our books.