Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I will get the Deputy a note on it. The Estimate before us today does not include any additional spending, so the allocation the Deputy is talking about is for the total budget. Today’s Estimate does not include any capital element. The Deputy is right. The site was empty for quite some time because of Covid. There was underspending. We have carried as much of it forward as we are allowed to by the accounting rules. I will get the Deputy a breakdown of where the other money was allocated.