Tom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)

If it is available, I welcome that very much. That was an unduly long time to wait for the full information. If there was proper management of payments, all of this would automatically be available in the local offices and could be forwarded to the central office within a reasonable time. In addition, it would give the Minister a good overview of what is happening in different parts of the country. It would be possible to monitor if there were variations in the implementation of the schemes across the country.

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