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

The Minister's explanation of the 99.86% spend is a bit like a pilot who takes off in an aeroplane for New York and, having turned back after a crisis 100 miles off the coast, ditches all of the fuel the aeroplane was given and says that all of it was used. Basically, the Minister has ditched money for projects that had only been sanctioned three weeks prior. It is bad practice. The councils have not even done the work yet.