Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

On Deputy McCormack's first question, €12 billion will be invested in the next five years in water and wastewater infrastructure. Uisce Éireann will set out with the Department of housing the specific sectoral dimensions of that, which will give the Deputy a more informed view at a county level. I do not have that information in front of me. It is to fully fund water infrastructure for the next five years. In recent months and years there has been uncertainty and an annualised nature of water funding. We are protecting the allocation we are giving and it is now about delivery. Irish Water has the head room and capital to drive delivery and ensure we get the water and wastewater infrastructure in place to underpin the homes and get them built and then get the investment connected to that.

Around energy, we are investing more than €3 billion between ESB Networks and EirGrid. They have significant investment programmes in their own rights, as they are commercial State bodies. The equity injection will allow them to borrow. Both ESB Networks and EirGrid have published investment plans and we can come back to the Deputy with specific information on those. The energy investment is much greater than the equity injection we have put in place, but it was important as it will allow them to borrow and give them seed capital for further energy infrastructure development.

On health, many safeguards have been put in place since the children's hospital overruns and reforms took place in recent years. There have been extensive reviews of the matter. Health digitisation is a clear part of the work we have done with the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill. She is ambitious about making e-health happen once and for all. We need to digitise our health system. There are big opportunities in the use of data, such as better person information for patients, which will ultimately bring much greater efficiencies to our health system and the use of the €24 billion which is the current annual expenditure on health. Data and digitisation of the health system are critical to planning our health system for the future. It will probably be the single most important investment from a health perspective, given the opportunities it represents. AI and data in healthcare are limitless. E-health will be critical in the more than €9 billion being invested in overall health infrastructure.

The way we are developing the specific actions - the Deputy may to read the report we published in July - is that from each of the areas in which we identified barriers, we want to have clear actions and reforms that emerge, including reforms within the State. Some of that relates to legal reform, some the infrastructure guidelines. There is a range of areas, which we will set out in the coming weeks, but they will be informed by the report we published in July.

Our metric is to take a project that might take up to 15 years now in the worst case scenario and see how we can absolutely say what time we have cut out and how we will deliver it more quickly. That is how we are approaching this. We are using Gantt charts to track the projects from initial phase to completion and looking at how we can cut the different elements that are excessive or taking too long. We have done a lot of work on that. We will publish the reforms in the autumn and work to make them happen.