Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Department with responsibility for public expenditure has the BAR fund. With regard to the scheme the Department availed of, there was a very significant uptake and follow-through on the expenditure on those. Of all the Government Departments we would have been the Department which had the most significant spend and worked to try to find every angle we possibly could to draw down funding. As for the overall management of the BAR, the Department with responsibility for public expenditure has that detail, not mine.