Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I mentioned Waterford Airport specifically, but other regional airports were beneficiaries of grant assistance last year. My understanding - the Minister should correct me if I am wrong because I do not claim to know this area intimately - is that for a regional airport to be eligible to draw down a grant, it has to put up 20% to 25% of the funding. The Minister has mentioned the money payable to Waterford Airport is frozen because it has no commercial carrier flying in and out. Have the grants awarded to other airports in 2016 been drawn down? If not, will the funding be carried over into 2017? From what year's budget does the funding come?