Mr. Feargal Ó Coigligh:

As I said in my opening statement, we were coming out of Covid. There were a lot of difficulties in the construction sector with moving projects ahead. This impacted severely on our capital programme, both in the ability of people to progress projects and the cost environment, which put projects back significantly. The large-scale capital scheme funds very good projects such as the RDS redevelopment and Connacht rugby stadium. All of a sudden, these large projects saw big cost increases in an inflationary environment. The Government stepped in with additional funds but those kinds of things delayed the ability of the Department to spend on its capital projects.