Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No. As Minister I sanction recommendations that come from other Departments. I will spell out what that means in order to deal with my responsibility in this, which I want to deal with centrally. A Department outlines a project it wants to carry out and it makes a recommendation to me on the project if it is above a certain scale. I ultimately have to supply that sanction to that Department. If the project is above €100 million it has to go to Cabinet in its entirety.