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

The problem also applied to the Minister's time at the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. It had totally underspent and totally undersanctioned long before the Minister's Department was set up. It would have wound up with the same underspend as the Minister's new Department. With all due respect, the Minister was the Minister of State in that Department with responsibility for rural affairs. That does not wash.