Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I presume the Deputy is referring to A3, the purchase of plant and machinery. The OPW is doing a lot of the work on flood risk management using direct labour. Some of the allocation is in plant and machinery that we replace and purchase for ourselves. One such example is Templemore, County Tipperary. Clonlara in County Clare will be a direct labour scheme. To be quite honest, as Minister of State I hope to see an awful lot more direct labour being used. The spending involves the replenishment of in-house land and machinery. It cannot be bought cheaply and, unfortunately, it has to be purchased regularly. That is what the spending relates to.