Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am here from Limerick today on behalf of Deputy Cullinane who, unfortunately, cannot be here. I have a couple of questions for the Minister and hopefully he can answer them. What are the outstanding capital investment issues the Minister sees and how can they be addressed? What is the Government's additional spend on capital this year that is over and above the commitments already given in the five-year plan and how will they be funded? Is the plan adequate in the Minister's opinion? What does the Minister think of comments by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and the European Commission that Ireland needs to commit more funds to public capital investment and that the current plan does little more than address the depreciation of public capital stock?