Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ann Phelan, to the House and thank her for dealing with this matter. I am raising it in view of the fact that there has been a quite substantial delay in getting work done, particularly in Cork City Council. On the one hand, there are people saying they are not getting funding and, on the other, there are people saying that when they get it, there is a delay since they are receiving it later in the year. I understand that although there was some funding allocated in 2013 and 2014 and a programme of works in each case, some of the work was not done, the money was not spent and, as a result, it was refunded to the Department. I seek to identify exactly where the problem is and what now needs to be done to ensure this is not repeated in future years.