Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It does not have to be. As the Deputy said, we are unlikely to get there. I accept the position of the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform reluctantly, in the sense that it was prior to my time, but I get the point that we need to be as realistic as possible in our Estimates, both current and capital. The other side of the coin is that we are full steam ahead on our capital investment. We have made it clear to the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform that, if a project comes in, we will pay for it, and I have made it clear to the Defence Forces that they must keep driving the range of infrastructural investments in barracks and elsewhere across the system.