Mr. Dermot Nolan:

I cannot answer that question but we can follow up through the clerk to the committee and give the Deputy specific information and briefing on that. The Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform negotiates with the individual Departments about what sort of projects and programmes it will be able to develop that would be classified as eligible for drawing down European funding. The application is then put in and what tends to happen is the money is spent through the Exchequer. We provide the money to the Departments and there is usually quite a rigorous follow-up by the European Commission on the expenditure to make sure that complies with European rules.