Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is fair to ask the Minister to account for her stewardship for as long as she had it. I will confine my comments to Leader, which she handled personally. According to the most recent answers I have received to parliamentary questions, a few hundred thousand was spent under the Leader programme and projects and €6.7 million approved. On the exact same day, in the previous programme - the one that went from 2007 to 2013 - €8 million was spent but, more importantly, we had got to €48 million approved. In other words, six times as much had been approved. Can the Minister explain how it is that in comparison with the exact same day on an equivalent programme under the previous Government, this is so slow to be rolled out?