Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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Finally, if I have a minute, I wish to go back to the capital plan, for instance, the national development plan. Is there a master plan that shows, over the lifetime of the national development plan, what projects will be at the different stages along the way each year so that we can track progress or lack thereof in these projects within each Department? Let us consider, for instance, the building of the cancer care unit in University Hospital Galway.

Is there a project plan for that programme setting out what will be done in each year of the plan to ensure it is completed within a certain timeframe? We see a list of projects and that €110 billion, or whatever it is, is being allocated but how do we track that progress on each project within each Department on a yearly basis to see if the targets are being met so that there will be a stream of work for the construction industry and civil engineering contractors and they will know that there is a plan in place and that everything is moving in the right direction rather than having that stop-go feeling that is out there at the moment? Is there a master plan or a master programme?