Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Some of that will be carried over into next year. The projects, some of which are in Deputy Murphy's constituency and are very important, will be proceeding.

Leader funding is tied in with the European Union funding arrangements and we must draw it down. We have got a reassessment of the agreement with the European Commission on Leader and we are now able to draw down 85% of the funds from the European Union where it used be 55%. That has made an impact and given us some savings as well.

We have provided additional moneys as well this year for landfill remediation, which are matters that have been subject to European Court of Justice infringements and on which I am trying my best to catch up with the legacy issues of 31 European Court of Justice judgments against Ireland in a number of areas, including groundwater quality. We need money for those and we are spending those as the invoices come in or else the courts make the decisions in lump sum fines or daily fines against us. That answers the questions.

On the Doha conference on climate change, am I before the committee next week?