Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

One would expect that the reaction to that would be a significant increase in the capital expenditure but that is not where the spending in the Revised Estimate has been, by and large. Mr. Desmond mentioned the State claims, demographics and so. If we needed to introduce a Supplementary Estimate because we were increasing our capital expenditure to address some of what are undoubted critical shortfalls in our system, one would say we were on the right path, but if we are just plugging the gap and not actually seeing capital expenditure kick in, that raises concerns.