Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Government will meet the medium term objective next year in terms of the structural budget. That will then free up resources for capital expenditure in budget 2019. The Minister is currently in the middle of a capital plan review, but in terms of that pipleline, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, has told us there are not enough projects to go into that pipeline.

In terms of planning for budget 2019 and the capital projections for that, will the Minister confirm that he will be making announcements this October pending the capital plan review in terms of budget 2018? What signals will he give to agencies to start preparing projects in that when we are in a situation in budget 2019 to invest more in capital that they will have projects on which to spend it?

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