Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Taoiseach did not answer the question I asked. I asked him if he accepted, as a former Minister for Finance and as the current Taoiseach, that the money spent on e-voting machines, the PPARS computer system, consultancy for Abbotstown and a proposed development at Thornton Hall is now dead money. It was wasted by his Government and by him, as a former Minister for Finance. It is taxpayers' money, it is dead and gone, but the Taoiseach does not have the courage to admit that. It is gone.

If one stands in a house in Longford where a husband, wife and three sons are unemployed, it is a situation replicated all over the country. The Taoiseach comes in here and says: "We will rectify the public finances, we are getting great value for money, we are a Government that delivers projects on time and budget, which are very necessary for the people."

The model the Taoiseach has adopted was under the PPP system. The urban regeneration programme and the prison are now dead. It is perfectly obvious that major finance for major public projects is in serious difficulty. What is the Taoiseach's plan to deliver on the interconnector, the schools building programme, the DART interconnector and other major pieces of infrastructure? If the cost of borrowing under the PPP scheme is too high, and apparently it is, with urban regeneration and the prison gone, and other programmes to follow, does the Taoiseach have a plan?

Fine Gael has a plan which would not cost the taxpayer a cent in borrowing money from a broken-----

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