Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

They got their allocations in August. Cork's original allocation for 2025 was €1.163 million. It got an additional €1.167 million in the supplementary allocation, which brings the total to €2.331 million. We are just waiting on the returns to come back from local authorities. There were some very difficult conversations this summer with local authorities that did not spend their allocations in 2024, although that did not include Cork.

With some of them I could not understand why they did not and why they sent money back. I am confident that no money will be coming back this year after those conversations.