Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their detailed opening statement. I have a couple of questions about the money allocated and the money spent to date, just so we are absolutely clear. The allocation of the reserve fund to Ireland of €1.015 billion was significant. In its totality, of the more than €1 billion that was allocated to the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform and which it managed, precisely how much of that went to the Department with responsibility for agriculture? Precisely, what of that amount has been allocated and spent to date? What is left over?

Of the €150 million that is to be returned to Europe and go in under the REPowerEU fund - and that deal is done - is that €150 million coming from the overall fund of more than €1 billion or is it coming from an allocation given to the Department with responsibility for agriculture? I ask for an answer to that question about the figures first.