Mr. Dominic Mullaney:

I see the issue. As Mr. O'Leary said, prior to last year, a local authority could spend up to 15% of its discretionary grant on local improvement schemes. The Dublin authorities were not getting a discretionary grant so did not have the wherewithal to take it from that fund. It could not be done unless they decided to use their own resources to do so. They did not have any possibility of taking it from one of our grants because they were not getting a grant from us.