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

The Minister and the Minister of State are here before us today. Neither has outlined the percentage of funding that is allocated for disadvantaged areas, or areas of high deprivation. Of the €56 million allocated, how much of it was ring-fenced? I recently listened to an interview that An tAire Stáit gave last week in which he alluded to the fact that not all of the money that was ring-fenced for areas of deprivation or high disadvantage was applied for and that there were not sufficient applications. The Minister of State can correct me if I am wrong, but I understand that there were not enough applications submitted to meet the amount of money that was ring-fenced. Can he identify how much was ring-fenced?