Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

With that fund, does the Minister envisage that, for instance, for capital spending in the national development plan we will have a situation where we have funding to deal with the dips so that we can have a continuous flow of projects being delivered to try to attract more of our construction workers back into this country, where they will have a better guarantee that they will have a more sustainable career rather than having ups and downs? It is one of the issues that has left some people over in Australia not coming back because they cannot trust where our cycles are going. They are going too high and then too low and there is a lack of certainty. Will this fund be a mechanism to try to create that certainty? As I described, will it be a mechanism to ensure that we have projects in train that will be delivered to a plan over ten years, and if one project falls off or is delayed there will be another one to pick up on? Some of the money could be used to get these projects ready in such a way that they would be what I would deem to be shovel-ready. All of the preliminary planning consents would be done so that projects could be done when they need to be done to keep the flow of work going. I do not know if I am making sense.