Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Kildare County Council is one of the ten local authorities that reached its limit and so we have reallocated resources to Kildare over the course of 2018. We are now engaging with Kildare County Council and the other nine local authorities that have reached their allocation limits about ensuring that they will continue to receive applications while I continue my discussions with the Minister about more funding to be made available with potential drawdowns almost being at the limit of drawdowns at €200 million but not there yet. There is a time lag between an approval and a drawdown and it might never become a drawdown for various reasons. It is not a perfect science in terms of knowing at a point in time exactly how much will be drawn down four months hence. That is why when we got to 50% of drawdowns we began our engagement with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, aware of how this had been more successful than had been anticipated.