Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I understand that. That is a very genuine issue, which we have discussed previously. I acknowledge that issue, but it has nothing to do with the fact that funding requested by the OPW was left €70 million short over those three years.

Let me give the Minister of State an analogy. If ten schemes are approved and, as he said, funding has to be profiled for those schemes, and we then hit roadblocks from judicial reviews and all the rest, and half the funding cannot be spent in a given year, for example, the problem is there are no other schemes that can pick that up.