Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The funding was allocated to the rural side for this year. As for the spend, the Minister, Deputy Ring, as Deputy Ó Cuív knows, now has responsibility for the rural brief. In fairness to Deputy Ring, he recently announced the local improvement scheme, LIS, under which €10 million will be spent, and today he has allocated the town and village enhancement programmes. When the Departments were divided and the new Department of Rural and Community Development was set up, I no longer had any flexibility in relocating funding.