Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will answer Deputy Ó Cuív's question first. There are legislative criteria relating to the focus on the Dormant Accounts Fund in respect of disadvantaged groups. I cannot recall the specific wording, but it is relatively focused. All the other Departments that get funding through the Dormant Accounts Fund have relationships with community and voluntary groups, and they are usually the groups that get funding. I agree that we should take care that we are not plugging holes for something. I am very conscious of that we should not plug holes where Departments should get their own voted money to tackle issues. I will try to be as quick as I can so that we can proceed.

On the issue of the Dublin north inner city project, it involves significant money, which is allocated annually. To answer the Deputy Paul Donnelly's question on how the Mulvey report got implemented, my understanding is that there was major political imperative and the then Taoiseach prioritised pulling out all the stops to do this because of the variety of dangers present. People were being killed, so all the stops were pulled out at a senior political level. That is why it got the funding that it has.

That would be my understanding, to give members a very brief answer.