Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Capital Investment Plan (Resumed): Irish Exporters Association

4:00 pm

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We would love to have tens of billions of euro to spend on capital but, with the best will in the world, that is going to be very difficult in the short term. Do the witnesses have an estimate for the level of funding that would get us to the point of being good enough? Their statement lays out very starkly that there are serious capacity constraints across a range of transport and export areas. We have to ship freight to the UK or elsewhere because we do not have the capacity to take it out through our own airports. There are particular constraints on the western airports. How much money would it take to get us, not to being best in class, but to the point of these matters no longer being a constraint on our growth?

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