Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is not for me to comment on the preparation or the internal notes from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. All I can tell the Deputy is that the bit that is on me, and my officials, is to make sure that we put the best possible case forward based on the evidence, and that is exactly what we did.

I will make three quick points. In the end we did get significantly more than the €808 million, not in recurrent funding.