Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation
4:00 pm
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I do not want to interrupt. My question was if the Construction Industry Federation is saying 4% of GDP, which would mean increasing the capital spend, is it essentially calling for increasing the capital spend not by raising revenue but from the existing expenditure benchmark? Is it just saying it will take GDP as a percentage and it will then go up? If that is the case, we then have to make decisions in budgetary terms as to what should be sacrificed.