Johnny Guirke (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

I agree with Senator Rabbitte that the paperwork turns a lot of people off applying for schemes, especially LEADER and stuff like that. When they do get the funding, for example, someone building a community centre, it falls way short. An awful lot of this money is not even used. If there were more money for a particular project, we would see an awful lot more of it being drawn down. I see that a good bit across different community groups.