Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

They are committed to ensuring we have better communications across government and that we spend public money properly to ensure we do that in a way that makes sense and delivers on potential.

We can take a project like Project Ireland 2040. The idea that we would not communicate across government on a project that will commit over the next ten years €115 billion of taxpayers' money, and that we would not create the momentum through good communications on the back of that to ensure there would be private sector investment that would come with the provision of that certainty, would be a huge wasted opportunity. Let us focus on what we are trying to do here, which is a good idea, rather than trying to undermine it for political reasons.

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