Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will wind up in this dilemma and it used to drive me crazy. I accept it is a perennial problem and not so easy to resolve but I will highlight the issue. A bill will come to the Minister on 10 December and she will have money left over. Bills are held back. In theory there should be an entire process before there is clearance for payment, including getting out inspectors and so on. The temptation is to pay and say the inspection will be done in January. They know this. It is time the whole bluff of this game is called. We all want to say that if it is not in by 1 December to give us time to properly process it, that it will not be included. The beginning of December is seven days from today.