James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

Absolutely. In fairness to the Department of public expenditure and the Department of Finance, they receive very significant demand from across Government and difficult decisions always have to be made. In my sense of it, they did not have any particular issue with housing. What they would have always said was that their difficulty was in balancing the demands from the different Departments for capital expenditure. Obviously, there is the grid, education and healthcare. In government, there is a pot of money and how that funding is divided is always a challenge.