Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

Special EU Programmes Body: Engagement with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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The small grants, and looking at some of the learnings and difficulties that would have previously existed around the bureaucracy, are very positive measures. In fairness, whatever I may think about what is not in the programme, if the Minister is looking at those things then it covers a fair amount of scope.

How tight are the criteria? In the process that is left regarding the Commission, I would imagine that nothing is really likely to change between now and hitting the road. Is that the case?