John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Therefore, there is no way for me to prove to the general public that PLI actually spent €20 million in 2015 and €16 million in 2017. There is no way for me to comfort the general public with the fact that all the amounts we are talking about for each of the years were actually spent on promotion.

We do not know if there was a leakage from the amount of money into general supports for the company.