Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----€1.4 million over the past last two years. Deputy Ó Cuív referred to the rural regeneration scheme last week and he got it wrong because he said that no funding had been drawn down. Last year, I stated that I would not spend the budget but we spent 99.9% of it. They got it wrong again. Will Deputies Ó Cuív and Eugene Murphy listen to Deputy Calleary because they do not seem to know what is going on? If they want to ask me directly, I will give them any of the answers they want. I am delighted to give the shows and Tidy Towns funding.

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