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

The point is the NDP is there. We were happy with the €176 million and that is the baseline. We have told the Defence Forces to keep going with the infrastructural projects on the campuses. We want projects to go through the system and be designed. Relatively speaking, the capital allocation for defence, compared with that for other high-spending Departments, is not huge. In the context of a multi-billion euro NDP, it is not huge. We have to have allocations, but the Minister took a decision not to allocate the additional NDP money at the time of the budget and indicated he wanted to deal with in January or February, which he is doing. We are negotiating that as well, on top of the baseline figure of €176 million.