Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Government spends far more than €1 billion, as the Deputy knows, and we will draw that down. The Deputy is underestimating what has happened already under the Brexit Adjustment Reserve, BAR. The level of investment in piers and harbours across the country is because of the BAR and the allocations are multiples of what we used to annually provide. There is no comparison. There was an open invitation to communities affected, particularly fisher communities around harbours and piers, and the BAR has helped us to allocate specific funding to those communities in respect of initiatives there.

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