Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

-----for the finance of major infrastructure over a long period is to use the European Investment Bank and private pension funds, and would not cost the taxpayer a cent by borrowing from broken banking institutions.

In respect of the other pieces of major infrastructure proposed, can the Taoiseach say if the PPP system has failed, in view of the cost of borrowing for urban regeneration and prison programmes? Can the Taoiseach tell me if this system, which has already failed, will work, in terms of the DART interconnector, the electricity interconnector and other major proposals for school buildings, hospitals and so on, that are in place?

Are we to have more examples of a litany of waste and more waste, which is the hallmark of Fianna Fáil in government over the past 12 years? We are witnessing it again here. There are two absent people who have no courage to stand up and say a stop must be put to this. The people will give their answer on 5 June.

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