Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Yes. It will be a rounding-up at the end of the year. For example, in the discussion I had with the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, on the schools, we debated what was the best way to proceed. I opened the discussion by asking if I had €50 million to allocate to the Department of Education and Skills, what is the best way, in terms of stimulus, that I could get capital works going. I did not know whether it would be a new summer works scheme, the construction of individual schools, refurbishment of all schools, a broadband scheme for schools - whatever he wanted to do. The Minister came back and said there were X number of schools ready to go to tender if he had the funding and, although the cost of this would be €90 million, if I provided him with €50 million he would re-jig his capital budget to find the other €40 million because this is a good thing to do. We will present that in a balanced way at the end of the year.