Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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That is CAF. CAF is matched by HFA funding but CAS is not. Deputy Ó Broin and I can argue about this but it is 100% State funded. It is not borrowing, it is capital. I am genuinely trying to be helpful here. Let us take Dublin City Council for argument's sake. There are some large developments in Dublin City Council that we are estimating will not conclude this year but will conclude next year, in some cases for very good reasons. There are complications within the developments and that happens. That is the real world. It happens that some projects are delayed. There is one particular project in the Deputy's constituency where there were significant issues with water ingress on the first build. I will not mention where it is here but that development took a lot longer to conclude than expected. What we have done here, and it was the sensible thing to do, is to look at the money we have, ascertain where there are pressures and opportunities to deliver more, to make sure that we are going to hit our target for social housing delivery and look at how we can deliver that. We had a significant capital carry over last year, as the Deputy knows. Deputies Ó Broin and O'Callaghan, as is their right, criticised me and the Department for that, even though given the year that was in it most people understood there were issues with supply chain and delivery. We will not surrender any of the allocation this year. We have spent €500 million more this year on the capital side than we had at this time last year. We have to ramp up the capacity to do that, so what we are doing-----