Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Let us not get carried away by the plan which has been described as lacking in ambition. In 2019 only half of what was spent in 2008 will have been spent. The roads budget, for instance, is purely for maintenance works. In the context of the commitments in the programme for Government and given the overall figure to which the Government has committed, would it not be appropriate and sensible – God forbid – to bring forward the review of the plan to update it in the context of the changed environment and, as the Minister said, the likely input not only from a budgetary committee but also the committee on enterprise and that dealing with the regions which is associated with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, the Department of Deputy Heather Humphreys. I was going to say the committee on the environment but that does not exist anymore. Responsibility for broadband is now within the remit of two Departments. Who will be a charge? Where will the capital programme for broadband be housed?

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