Mr. Graham Doyle:

We go through a competitive process with the various applications we receive for greenways. When we have funding available, we look at the projects that have been put forward and assess them against each other. In the case referred to by the Deputy, the local authority came to us and said it had built the greenway. It spent a significant amount of money and delivered a high-quality project but the spend was in excess of what we had available for several such projects at the time and it was not possible to retrospectively fund the final stretch, to the great disappointment of some officials in my Department who hugely admired and appreciated the quality of the final product.