Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the Deputy's first question, the Minister, Deputy Murphy, and I aim to publish the ten-year plan in December. Regarding his second point on broadband, the role of my Department has been purely confined to making sure there is enough of a capital allocation to support the tendering process. Any decisions regarding who is tendering for it and the implementation of that process is for the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten. I will leave it to him to comment on the information the Deputy shared with the House.

In terms of making sure the capital plan will then be implemented, the reason we are now publishing the capital tracker I referred to earlier is to ensure that in regard to specific projects that have been committed to in the public plan, the public and the Oireachtas can see where they stand in terms of implementation. We can see the fruits of that in terms of the last plan that is in its final phase of implementation such as the Gort to Tuam road, Luas cross city, progress on the national children's hospital and, for example, the recent progress that has been made in delivering another 14 primary care centres through use of public private partnerships, PPPs.

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