Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion
Dr. Ray Griffin:
I would say you do not if you got a fair share relentlessly and that was known. The reality is, per capita, there is a belt from the north west and the Border through the midlands to the south east which is closed out of a lot of capital expenditure. To decompose that, it involves political representation but it is also that institutions have got into the base within the Departments. If there is a hospital, university, television station or different types of national infrastructure, when that infrastructure is invested in, they are a beneficiary of it. If you do not have those pieces of infrastructure, you are closed out of the pie.
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