Ulick Burke (Fine Gael)

County Galway received one of the lowest allocations despite being the second largest county in Ireland. This is a disgrace and the matter must be taken up with the NRA. I took up the matter of the inaccuracies in the allocations for 2003, as shown in the appendix of the report, with the NRA yesterday but did not get much of a report on the reasons for them. The fact that a major national agency with a considerable spend produced an annual report with such glaring inaccuracies must be taken up. Somebody must take responsibility and the authority must be brought to book. It is a disgrace. If there was political influence in the determination of final allocations, it is an even greater disgrace. I hope the Leader will take up the matter as a matter of urgency with the Minister for the Environment and Local Government.