Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I think we are estimating another €40 million, but it is a PPP so there are different streams of funding. In can clarify this for the Senator, but I think we estimated about a further €40 million from the State. I might not be right on that so I had better come back to the Senator. About 1,000 students transferred on to the campus in September 2014. It is a very big project and it is over time. As it is a PPP, considerable private money is also coming in. Senator Craughwell, who is gone, made the point that PPPs in schools have delivered good buildings and it is also much easier to maintain them from the point of view of the school management because the PPP involves maintenance as well as building.

Senator O'Donnell also asked me a very interesting question about where I thought the best return for spending was. The simple answer is that there is return from all the spending in one way or another. If we were to take something out and say we would not bother spending on a particular level we would soon see huge-----