Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister get back to me with an answer on the amount of approvals on hand for which claims have not yet been received? He is quite right regarding the two-year timeframe. He forgot, however, to mention a third aspect, namely, that under every grant scheme ever created, there will be people who get approval but who, for one reason or another, never do the work and thus never claim the full grant. If I have the figure for the total amount of money approved that has not yet been claimed, I will be able to do the extrapolation myself.

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