Ms Deirdre Hanlon:

The money goes from the Exchequer through the Department's Vote to our agencies to build whatever they have been authorised to build. As they build, pay contractors or people who undertake the project, they fill in claim forms and send them to the European Union and the money comes through in due course. As they have already been funded from the Exchequer through the Department's Vote, the funds typically flow back into the Exchequer. They do not necessarily flow through the Department. That is what happens in the main, with a small number of exceptions.