Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is a little like the World Food Programme in that it is an accountancy issue. There was a late payment due from the European Commission in 2017. It arrived in 2018. Areas of natural constraint, ANC, payments are made in September and we usually receive the receipts from the European Commission in December, but, as I understand it, that will not happen in 2019. This has served to skew the figures somewhat, but I am advised that there really is no story to tell.