Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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There will not be a supplementary budget, because we can move money around, as necessary, depending on how we are meeting our spend, per year. We constantly do a performance review on what spending we are doing to see if we are on-profile to meet the allocation we have been given and that we spend the money that we have for the year. We must not overspend because then we would be in a difficult position, but we must not underspend when we are in a crisis. If certain local authorities have not been able to utilise its grant as efficiently as we would like, we can allocate additional money to other local authorities that might have a greater call on it. We are doing some work on this at the moment.