Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to hear what Dr. Hughes is saying because he is advising Government. The Government is drawing up a plan and it will put €20 billion, €30 billion, €50 billion or €100 billion into capital investment in housing, infrastructure, water and sewerage, roads, public transport and so on. I am interested in finding out how much of that pot of gold will be spent on the provision of fundamental services such as hospitals, schools and all the things that will be put in if we are going to expand a city and double its size. What proportion of the national capital plan will have to be put into the five, six or seven growth centres? Dublin will have to get a fair bit of money just to deal with the chaos already in the city in terms of transport which has been so well articulated by Dr. Hughes's colleague, John Moran, who says we have a very bad transport system in the city and that it should be like Paris. Of the new national plan, to make the spatial strategy real, what proportion of the total investment should go into the cities - the nominated agglomeration centres? Are we talking about 80% or 90%?