Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The International Monetary Fund, IMF, published a review of our infrastructure earlier this year and was generally positive about a lot of our infrastructural projects. However, it did state that the differing sectoral approaches to infrastructural development was an issue. It also noted that the state of our infrastructure was a barrier to progress. I presume the plan will deal with that but how are we going to deal with the differing sectoral approaches? Are we going to take an all-of-Government approach to infrastructural development and lay down certain standards? In that context, I welcome the fact that Luas cross-city came in under budget. Will the lessons of that project be learned and transferred across all capital spending?

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