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

The Minister is missing the point. The 5% figure is the amount of the total fund that must be spent on Leader-type actions. The Minister mentioned 7%, which equates to €153 million.

What are required are different rates of co-funding by the State and European Union. I am sure this is in the Minister's notes. Bearing in mind what we are told by the Minister's colleague regarding the bulk of the funding required, is it a 53%:47% co-funding regime or a 75%:25% co-funding regime? In other words, there is a minimum amount of State co-funding required in each case. What is the required co-funding in regard to Leader?

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