Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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The reason I bring that up is it is different from how the LEADER programme operates. We now have a situation where the Minister for Rural and Community Development is giving out money, and LEADER and the county councils are in competition to use that money and have access to it directly. It was the council that administered that money to LEADER at a charge of 3% but now LEADER and the councils are both vying for the same money. That is not the case for the LEOs, however. There is no charge.