Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Unfortunately not. I would point out that we opened the scheme a number of times. We embarked upon a significant media campaign on local radio and there was a national campaign as well. It is always going to be the case that people get left behind. I do not want to see anyone being left behind but unfortunately it does happen. The critical thing is that sometimes when we have expenditure like this, speed trumps perfection and you do not get everything right. On the broad thrust, we got close to half a billion out in a year in three different iterations of the scheme. We really specialised in hospitality and retail towards the end of it, which was very important.