Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

I totally reject what Deputy Creed said. I was told during the course of last year, before July, when €150 million had been provided for this scheme, that no further payments would be made between July and December. A sum of €150 million was provided in the Estimates at that time. Before the year was out we had allocated €414 million in payments and we have provided——-

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