Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Smith is creative. I do not know the answer to his question about the Cohesion Funds but I will undertake to pursue it with my colleague at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to see if that is available. The Deputy is talking about after 2020. I see no reason why we should not look at that possibility. I do not know whether it will be so. I appreciate the case the Deputy made and that he is a strong advocate for the funding need for the Border for infrastructure and Brexit. I will bear that in mind and inform Transport Infrastructure Ireland and local authorities of the views he put before the House. I will refer back to him on the issue of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

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