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

To be fair, if the Minister only opens the applications in September - I do not wish to put dates in his mind - the chances are that no funding will be allocated under the 2018 budget because based on previous years, it will take a number of months to adjudicate on the applications. To be fair, there is a big difference in terms of when the application process opens and closes and that will determine whether we expect to see any funding in 2018. We are here to talk about the Revised Estimates. Will there be funding in the 2018 Estimates for large-scale capital projects?