Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Cabinet decided this morning to re-profile about €100 million in expenditure and infrastructure. It is important to put that into context. The budget for infrastructure for this year is €7,000 million. That is an increase of €1,500 million on last year so we are re-profiling €100 million of an increase of €1,500 million. It does not affect or change the budget ceilings agreed by this Parliament in October. As many people know by now, the largest single deferral, which is, of course, not a deferral in reality, is the €27 million we had allocated to A5 this year. That project cannot go ahead because, unfortunately, there is no Executive and there are no Ministers in Northern Ireland-----

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