John O'Mahony (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for answering all the questions. Above any group which has come before us, there is a unanimous approach from its side and from ours. It has been pointed out already that the committee cannot allocate funding, but what I hope to do, along with Deputy Troy and other members is that we, as a committee, would make a recommendation to the Minister that this be right on the top of the capital review. We have all the facts and figures here now. I will propose that and while I cannot speak for the whole committee I can speak for many of them. I hope that we can do that and advance it in every way we can. We can talk about providing jobs and so on but we need the infrastructure to ensure they are distributed to the regions. There are other projects that other members of the committee will push too, but both members and non-members will push this, firstly at the committee. Every little helps.