Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

World Development Report 2019: Discussion

2:00 pm

Photo of Paddy BurkePaddy Burke (Fine Gael)
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I welcome the delegation. Everybody agrees that investment in human capital is the way forward. However, the Government has to measure its cloth and has to have a balance between infrastructure, whether it is roads, water, electricity, broadband and so on, and generate the capital before it makes these choices. It is not as easy as saying we must invest in human capital.