Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will check, but I do not necessarily agree that that is the case in the way in which it has been delivered. The point I am making is that the letter was sitting on someone's desk. On whose desk was it? If it was sent to the then Minister, did he contact his officials? As a colleague of Mr. Griffin's in another Department said, this has a knock-on effect on other capital development projects in the State that many people were led to believe would take place in forthcoming years. We are not sure now if they can because of the threat posed by Brexit. Some €2 billion must be found and I have not yet been told exactly from where it will come.