Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are going to go around in circles on this because lots of, if not most, funding streams have criteria attached to them. These new tools are based on the principle that if money is going to be released - this is our money which will no longer be available to us to be used at home - then criteria will have to be met to access it. Deputy Murphy differs from me on that overall principle. I think it is reasonable that if we have gone through a degree of change that is generating the resources that are going into these funds then certain criteria must be met so that we can justify this money being made available and ultimately, so that we can hope to get it back in the future.