Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration will be given to the raising of a Government bond to fund the provision of critical infrastructure as a means of providing funding for vital areas, in which investment might otherwise be postponed because of the requirement to keep such expenditure off the Government’s balance sheet, in view of the fact that it would have the added benefit of utilising savings already available on which the Government can only receive DIRT at a low rate owing to current interest levels; if a particular examination has been carried out of the areas of the economy that require infrastructural investment which might benefit from such a provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11691/15]

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