Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will add to Deputy Bruton's point if I may. It is a really important one about how often our projections are conservative and we do not decide to make these investments. We spoke about this in respect of the Minister's transport portfolio in the Dáil earlier. If we were conservative in doing our business case, analysis and feasibility, we might not make the investments. We might not have done so with the broadband plan based on the benefit that was predicted with it. Deputy Bruton proceeded with it when he was Minister, and I think he has been vindicated. That should make us suspicious of how we make investment decisions and make us look at how we do projections. I would say the benefits are consistently greater than we project. If we were less conservative in our forecasting, we might have made many other investments in addition to the national broadband plan.