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

In addition, the State spends €3 billion or €4 billion on capital spending every year and, therefore, it is not a big player in the game. If we want to redevelop the roads and the rail system in the west, looking to the seanbhean bhocht atá ag teacht thar sáile is a waste of time. We should just look to the Exchequer and get on with the job. We can let the Exchequer worry. If it wants to get European money to supplement its own, that is fine, but we should just get on with the job. That would be my message. There is an illusion out there that there is a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow. It is a rainbow; there is no pot of gold at the end of it. The pot of gold is in the building across from this one - the Department of Finance.