Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I greatly welcome that and I thank the Minister for looking at the particular question I raised because it was just an indicative question. To have local mechanisms to resolve that is something I will certainly be monitoring in Rosslare.

My second question is in regard to the Brexit fund which the Tánaiste mentioned and the €1 billion. Of course, he talked about it still needing European Parliament assent. It was said that we had just over €1 billion. What is the mechanism by which decisions are going to be made? Are they going to be made by the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform? Is there a particular committee to which people make applications? What is the evaluation process so that people, particularly those in the fishing sector, who are really impacted and desperately worried, will know where to go, how to prepare their case and who to submit it to, as well as hauliers and everybody else impacted?

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