Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his announcement on the assignment of the €40 million. Will he confirm to the House that he will revert to the process which was in place prior to his entry into office? In this process departmental officials carried out the initial validation and the scoring. Most important, to ensure independence, departmental officials assigned the money to the projects rather than the way it is done in the system the Minister of State has introduced since he came to office, in which the money has been assigned by him and his political staff.

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