Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The rise in current expenditure is due to interest rate increases. The capital expenditure is in line with the trajectory over the multi-annual budgets. We always showed there was going to be an adjustment in the capital spend downward because we thought we could pick it up with off balance sheet expenditure through other sources such as the European Investment Bank.