Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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It is additional to the Covid-related expenditure. It may well be the case that some element of it would be a Covid contingency because of the deep uncertainty we have in projecting the number of people on the live register who will need support next year, for example. It is a very volatile situation. Not everything may be allocated to the individual Vote level. In broad terms the recovery fund concept is separate and additional to the provision we would make for known Covid expenditure in 2021.