The Taoiseach:

I am not sure. I am not being contrarian. I am just saying it is not that straightforward. What we should do to provide for the problems of the future is what we are doing through the funds we are providing. The Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund was designed with a view to making sure we could keep our capital programmes going. We know that we have to invest heavily in infrastructure not just for now, but for the next 20 years.

In an economic cycle, the question is how we make sure that when there is a downturn we have sufficient capital in place to continue with the capital investment. We are going to do the metro project but we have to commit to that over a number of years.