Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Independent)

Is it not true that every other European country borrows for capital projects and that those projects serve generations of people, not just a single generation? Therefore, capital projects should be paid for over a number of generations through capital borrowing. Is the Minister saying he is successful in spite of the trolleys and MRSA in hospital wards, the 50,000 families on the waiting list for housing and Ireland's lying 19th out of 26 OECD countries in terms of spending on education? This is hardly a success story.

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