Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

My officials are wisely informing me of the fact that Deputy O'Rourke is seeing, which is correct, a reduction in the budget. This was a reduction in the overall figure year on year. The figure increased last year because we introduced a supplementary budget. Because of the year-on-year accounting system halfway through the year we found ourselves not being able to deliver all of the services we committed to. We got a supplementary budget. If I recall rightly it involved transferring from other public transport sectors or other aspects of underspend in the budget, with some additional funding. We were able to apply a Supplementary Estimate. The actual reduction in the end is not quite-----