Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is. What happened was the original NDP allocation was much lower and spending has driven on. We have made this point. In fact, we are still in negotiations even to go above this figure because an element has been added to the NDP on which Departments are in discussion with the Minister for public expenditure. We should bear in mind that €142 million was the original figure in the NDP, but we went way ahead of that, to €176 million. If we were to put the original NDP into this figure, it would be much lower than €176 million.