Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for the opportunity to come in and clarify that. I want to be very clear to Deputy Michael Collins. I was not accusing Cork County Council of being asleep at the wheel. Rather, I was accusing Deputy Collins of being asleep at the wheel because he was up here railing and ranting about an application that did not get funding, but which was not submitted. There is no proposal from Cork County Council regarding the development of Union Hall. No proposal is ready which meets the criteria in regard to a development grant for Union Hall because Cork County Council still needs to do the preparatory and scoping work, which is not covered by the Department and is not covered by the Brexit adjustment reserve, BAR, scheme, in order to get to that stage. The Deputy is asleep at the wheel because his brother was chairman of Cork County Council. If the two of them had been tick-tacking and more focused on doing the work rather than giving out, they might have been aware of that before the Deputy got up on the floor of the Dáil today to give out again.

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