Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----on the same day, however, the then Minister, Deputy Varadkar, made an announcement to suspend public spending. He made a statement, “Given that we already have a large number of ‘shovel-ready’ projects which have been suspended until after 2016, there is little point in spending more money on planning new projects.” This project, however, had been agreed. It was shovel-ready and ready to go. I ask the Minister to do something about it, please.

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