Dáil debates
Thursday, 23 June 2016
Other Questions
Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme
6:05 pm
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Deficits are fairly well known to most people, especially those in the Dáil and in the Seanad. The former Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, launched the national capital programme last year. That stretches out for six years and has identified deficits project by project. In the summer economic statement 2016, his successor, the current Minister, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, increased the amount of funds available for the capital programme by €5 million. However, he has not yet transferred that funding into specific projects. That will be a matter for the Estimates campaign with individual Departments. At the same time we continue to explore the possibility of getting more leeway to spend on infrastructure.
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