Ms Jackie Maguire:

By and large, there has not been much of a gap lately between expenditure happening at local authority level and the recoupment. At times there may be a layover but that has to be dealt with through the cashflow. Claims from Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, and the National Transport Authority, NTA, are recouped monthly and we have a system we must log on to. It is their system but it is integrated. We make the claim and it comes straight into the council's bank account on a particular date. One is managing this all the time. Similarly, particularly on the capital side in housing, we make recoupments as we incur the costs and then draw them down. There can be a lag but as of late, it is not significant.