Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Let me help the Deputy. If what he states is true and his figures are correct, he is right in pointing to an appalling vista. Deputy Fleming's figures are wrong and this arises from a fundamental misunderstanding as to the what the figures represent. When he read out the figures on capital for 2008, the Deputy made the assumption that this was money that was spent in the Office of Public Works by the staff in place, when it is not.