Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)

The Minister has said he intends that the €5.1 million will be reinvested in the Department of Defence. Does the Minister for Finance share that view? Has he given the Minister a commitment that this money will be ring-fenced? We are familiar with other cases in which we wanted money to be ring-fenced for use in our communities, but that did not happen. I refer to the case of the Criminal Assets Bureau, for example. The Minister's opinion and analysis of the matter is grand as long as the Department of Finance agrees with it.

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