Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I have not been turning my mind to the early appointment of the next Commissioner. On the second point, from our perspective the stimulus brought to the economy in view of our financial position has been the maintenance of our capital investment programme, which is twice the European Union average. Were it the European average, the capital programme would be approximately €4 billion next year, when we will have a programme of €8 billion.

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