Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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We know there was very strong resistance from the Department of Finance and the Department of public expenditure and reform to the allocation of both this additional Revised Estimate and the one earlier in the year. We know that because of freedom of information documentation that I received from the Minister's Department. It seems that it was quite significant in that, according to the FOI documentation, the Minister had to go to the Taoiseach and the Taoiseach had to circumvent resistance from those two other Departments. Why were they resistant to providing the funding that was required to meet the Government's own targets and plan? What was their point of resistance?