John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

When all of the requests for capital borrowing are taken together, they exceed €500 million but these are beyond the requirements for this year. I envisage being able to accommodate half of this in 2009 with the rest spread over 2010 and subsequent years. I am finalising my consultation with the councils and the determining priority must be that we see how labour intensive projects are.

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