Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will deal with that. Before doing so I will very quickly complete the record to the committee as I was dealing with the questions put me by Deputy Doherty. I do have a more exact read in relation to the non-core expenditure. I will provide that information to the Deputy later on in the committee

On the transport question, at the moment transport spend for the government is running significantly ahead of where it was a year ago. Transport expenditure is now 31% up versus a year ago according to the June 2024 figures. Out of that, capital expenditure is up 41% at the end of June versus a year ago. There is not a case at all - far from it - that capital expenditure has been anyway constrained within the Department of Transport. It is up 41% versus one year ago. Overall we are expecting to see very strong growth in capital expenditure for transport this year.

On the particular question regarding what could be happening, in truth I cannot tell Deputy Canney what is happening with Galway County Council and its relationship with TII but it could be simply TII and the NTA having to stay inside the budgets that were allocated to them. The budgets allocated to them are very significantly up versus a year ago.