Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce

4:00 pm

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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There is no funding for that in the capital budget, which is our responsibility. It is our job to get the funding for that. We should have €100 million for those projects next year. They have to go in next year because if they do not, we will get none of the joined-up thinking and will have to wait another two or three years with the Luas tracks in place but none of the ancillary infrastructure which makes the city a public realm we can be proud of and which works. That is what makes cities successful. Cities know that now but our Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport does not.