Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yes. I will take four minutes and they will take two and a half minutes each. Last week, the Acting Chairman heard the officials, in the absence of the Minister for Finance, tell us that we had not yet applied to the EU for any funding despite being in the middle of a deep pandemic or whatever one wants to call it. That beggars belief when Germany is spending its money and other countries have already applied for and got theirs.

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