Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)

If it is okay, I will come back to the Senator on that. I have heard that mentioned before, and I will get the Senator specifics on it. I am conscious, however, that we had a relatively short window between the time we had to get money spent and when it was agreed.

The Department and the State did a lot of good work, and I see projects have had the benefit of coming to the table a little later than the person who assigned the money to opening some of these facilities, cutting ribbons and stuff like that. There was a lot of money spent during that period. If we had more time, perhaps we could have spent it all. Most of it was spent. I am sure that an analysis will be carried out and that people will identify things which might have been done slightly differently. In general, it was a response, based on the conditions attached to it, that helped the sector. In the face of what we are now facing, particularly on the pelagic side, that is in the past.

I am not going to beat a drum and say that BAR resolved all the issues. It did not. It was an effort at the time to assist the industry in adjusting to a very significant shock. We now have a shock that is of more seismic proportions.