Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

In terms of money coming back, it is money that we had estimated. I would not like to think that we are getting that whole pile of money back. It is Estimates that were not spent. As the Deputy can see, there are other areas we were able to spend it in. We are very focused on ensuring every primary school student has access to a hot school meal and that is taking up huge time for the Department's team. We do work closely with education. Hopefully, we will be in a position to have more of it spent.

In relation to My Future Fund, the projected underspend is about €13 million. That will have to be paid at some stage in the future. It is money that would have been paid out. The actual saving there is the State contribution that would have been paid had My Future Fund launched from the end of September. Obviously, we can use that in other areas now. I am very focused on getting the message of My Future Fund out there and getting out as much information as we can. As I said, we are able to allocate money into other schemes within the Department that are overspending. That is included in the €17 million figure.