Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

-----having works that would have an impact on jobs and job creation.

I point out to Deputy Martin that I do not wish to get involved in the process. The Cabinet sub-committee oversees this and allocates work to the different sectors which report back to the Cabinet. It is not by the number of meetings one can judge the value of this but by the work that is produced, where value for money and real effect can be had for the taxpayers' money.

We could have decided at the Cabinet sub-committee on infrastructure to look at some major projects, for example, metro north and a number of others that have been put into suspension. One could spend hundreds of millions of euro in planning and consultancies without creating any jobs on the ground.

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