Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

-----increasing the extent of funds available to the European Investment Bank which will, please God, have a direct impact on many of those communities whose schools are in poor shape. What is being negotiated is the opportunity to provide bundles of primary care centres or schools under the PPP, public-private partnership, system, provided the conditions can be applied and that the extra funding made available through the EIB can be provided for countries in vulnerable positions such as Ireland. This is in addition to the €17 billion capital programme which the Government has set out for the next number of years in order to deal with the provision of a range of facilities, including some of those to which the Deputy referred.

The Deputy well knows that every country has to borrow money. Does he think in that ruthless world of commercial lending, where these situations apply-----

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