Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the same issue, I absolutely agree with Deputy Daly. When one engages with councils on erosion they say they do not have the money. When one puts a parliamentary question in to the Minister, one is told that the Department has allocated the money. I think we should call in every council around the country and ask how they have spent their money or why they have not spent it. If they are not spending it and just sitting on it, it should be taken off them.

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