Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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No, we had hoped to start payments in GLAS in November and December. That was the plan. The story on GLAS in respect of getting it approved, getting people in, getting them approved and then getting payments out before the end of the year was always going to be challenging. The fact that we are going to meet our target by the end of the year points to a great success story. At the start of the year we had hoped that some of the money would be spent in November.