Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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I thank the Minister. I refer to capital expenditure. The Minister compared previous experiences. He has available to him borrowing capacity that was not available ten years ago. Does he intend to use that proactively in order to, as it were, nudge the areas we can develop and need to develop, particularly health, housing and education, in the future? A failure to make capital expenditure now will only rebound in four or five years time and we will be back to square one.