asked the Minister for Agriculture the amount of FEOGA Guidance Fund allocations which has not been taken up by the State for each year since Ireland joined the EEC.

The following table indicates the amounts allocated and paid out of the Guidance Section of FEOGA since 1973—

All the allocations have been or will be taken up. The amounts allocated and paid in any one year differ because the bulk of the allocations are not paid until the work to which they relate has been completed in subsequent years.