Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

There is more than enough legislation and as everybody can see we have been trying to get it through in the past few weeks.

We have announced several infrastructural initiatives. We included €1 billion in the national development plan following the arrangements made between Chancellor Brown and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen. In recent weeks we added more than €400 million and specified the projects we want to support. There are several other initiatives with which the incoming executive wishes to deal which we will discuss tomorrow. These include some North-South issues that have been held up for the past few years on which we want movement.

We will be back after Easter.

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