Mr. Seamus Coffey:

The issue is not necessarily the amount of capital spending that we are undertaking, but the value that we are getting for it. If we are identifying shortfalls in public capital, maybe we should be better at directing the resources that we are committing to it. The long-term analysis undertaken does not suggest that Ireland has been an underspender in terms of public capital investment. If the Deputy identifies infrastructure deficits, perhaps those are down to how we are using that money.