Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Finance and I will sit down together in the coming weeks. The existing schemes are all staying. I will be looking at opening new schemes and programmes. We intend to have the announcement ready for July. Deputy Ó Cuív knows the announcement was made on Friday - he was a Minister for long enough. He cannot expect me to have the plans drawn up and ready to go to the public by the following Wednesday. This will happen. I will have the scheme opened by July. I intend that we will have applications and that the funding will start rolling in early next year.

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