Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)

-----the ground of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, the Minister of State, Deputy Paul Kehoe, and others. There is a question mark. The communities asked me to raise this matter in the Dáil. Will the Minister of State give a breakdown of the bids from each area and on what they were based? He mentioned that the Galway bid concerned a project that was too big and would have cost too much money given that the money had to be divided among three areas. I ask for a breakdown that would give some accountability and transparency and eliminate some of the questions raised in respect of how the money was distributed. We would be interested to see that money coming to us because the area really worked hard to make its bid.

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