Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Ms Day referred to those two strains running together in parallel without impacting negatively or otherwise on each other. Some of us, by the way, put a lot of time and effort into ensuring that the regions received fairer consideration in terms of reallocation of funding. Not everybody was in support of that but a number of us on this committee were strongly supportive of it. The opposition seemed to come from unseen sources. To what extent has the group been able to avail of the allocation of moneys on an ongoing basis in line with its requirements without having to go to extraordinary ends to achieve that? Does it work?