Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I fully accept that people should be rewarded or remunerated. It is very important that we do not stifle creativity and so on. However, to go back to the fish-in-a-barrel analogy I made earlier, I would not like that quick fix to release 40% of the funds and get them out there to meet targets to be used as a basis of performance-related pay when the real goal is to support small and medium-sized projects that would not otherwise be covered by the market.