Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

No. The choice is Senator Burke's, not mine. Other counties, for example, County Roscommon, have set up endless schemes under this measure and when the Senator reads the print-out it will show him the counties that made a choice on their own to avail of this scheme.

The total cost of CLÁR funding in Leitrim was €661,000 but the total cost in County Galway last year was zero. The areas in which they spent their block grant was the choice of the county councillors. There is no point in blaming the Minister if the county councillors of Galway decide not to spend the block grant in the CLÁR area. This is the typical nonsense——