Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

Including the Christmas bonus, we will invest about €111 million in supplementary welfare. It is still a very big area of expenditure. What is below profile is what we anticipated in June when we were here last. I would like to be very clear on this point. Like all of us, I want to make sure there are no blockages and that people are not waiting. We get parliamentary questions regularly from all Deputies on delays in this space. It is an area where we have considerably reduced appeal delays and I thank the team that has done very hard work on this. I want to make sure we have no delays arising in any other scheme as a consequence.