Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister said that after six or seven years some 13,000 might be involved in the programme. He cut capital expenditure this year by €750 million and will cut it by €550 million next year. This amounts to almost half of the value of the stimulus package. Therefore, it does not even go half way towards meeting the cuts announced for this year and proposed for next year. Therefore, it is only a minor abatement of the cuts in capital expenditure. The Minister is now talking about drawing up a timetable, tenders being issued in 2013 and, possibly, planning applications going through for some of the infrastructural projects proposed.

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