Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I turn next to the European Commission and this is a question for anyone to address. As has been mentioned, it has agreed a new regional aid map. Representatives of the Department of Finance were here in the last session and said the new regional aid map covered a significantly smaller geographical area in this State and would, therefore, no longer be an effective mechanism. Why is it no longer being seen as an effective mechanism, other than it covering a smaller area? Is there any reason for this to be the case? I suppose this is a question for the Department of Finance.