Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for the clarification. While I am prepared to wait until the middle of this year for the assessment to see what he is prepared to put to Government - I see the Minister smile and I suppose I have no choice but to wait - I believe it is important that he put in place the moneys available to him as soon as possible. The difficulty is that this seems to be a step process: when the Minister gets that information he will bring it to Cabinet and make a decision. He needs to put pressure on the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform prior to getting a conclusion from the NTA on the options available. He will then know what moneys are available because ultimately that will assist him in deciding on the proposals he will bring to Cabinet. I would like to see more activity in tandem with that process and that the Minister reaches a point when all the analyses are done that he knows what moneys are available to him. That then becomes a relatively straightforward memorandum to Cabinet.

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