Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Has the emphasis on where the funding should go moved to plugging holes for State services, or is it still going to community projects? The intention with the Dormant Accounts Fund was that it would used for community projects, and not allocated to State agencies who were able to demonstrate that they a lovely plan if they were allocated the money. I am wondering about the various programmes right across the Department because it has a central role in this and draws up the plan, approves it and brings it to Government, if I understand correctly. If the current plan was made available to the committee, we could discuss the focus of the funding. Has it just become like lottery funding or alternative Exchequer funding? There is always that temptation.