Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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That is fine. I was interested to know that. What is happening with a lot of the schemes is the funding has been announced and allocated but is not being drawn down. We again have another scheme where the funding is there but the money is not being drawn down. There may be reasons for that but, at the same time, it has developed over the past number of years and is something that needs to be looked at by the Department. If people are looking for funding, they should be able to draw it down. To be fair, if the funding relates to infrastructure projects, the infrastructure has to be put in place and that takes time to draw down.

On the cost of staffing and the extra staff that had to be got, will the officials explain what that was about, and the infrastructure that had to put in place, which will also be drawn down against this scheme?