Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy and I know that he has been contact with my Department and directly with me about some local providers. We have over the last number of months started over 650 individual contracts with hotels, guesthouses and bed and breakfasts. We have needed to upscale our ability to deal with that number of contracts. When the Deputy and others have asked, I have had additional resources transferred within my Department to specifically resource getting invoices out and paid. That has been done. We are working through a backlog and we have made significant progress. I believe in the next two or three weeks we will be fully caught up. I thank the Deputy again for raising the issue, which I will discuss again with the Secretary General to make sure we are doing all we can to get people paid as promptly as possible.

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