Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----and projects in port development. Where a stream of income could potentially come from the metro or the Luas that will pay for those long-term, low interest loans from the European Investment Bank, that will provide another opportunity to deal with infrastructure that cannot be dealt with from the Exchequer reserves alone. That is going to facilitate particularly important elements of where we wish to be 20 years hence.

The national children's hospital will go ahead. The Minister for Health will bring a business case to the Cabinet shortly. This is about a project catering for 25% of the country's people, the children, for the next 50 years. We have been talking about it for 20 years. We had the same with the National Maternity Hospital. Both projects are very important for the health reform strategy and structure-----

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