Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The crux of the issue is the one-off allocation of €2.75 million the Minister of State mentioned. I will be interested to hear his response to my colleague's question whether that is related to the additional one-off payment that I mentioned in my initial opening remarks and which I welcomed in this Chamber. The point is that it does not come to the crux of the issue and the serious lack of funding. The whole point is that everybody from Galway has absolutely been in agreement that there has been a lack of funding for Galway County Council. It is really important at this point to ensure there is engagement with the council when it is putting together its budget. Specifically, councillors have been raising directly with us how worried they are about framing this budget in this context.

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