Dáil debates
Thursday, 17 June 2021
Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions
Capital Expenditure Programme
10:35 am
Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
My next question follows on from the first. To address a point that the Minister made, if I asked a question about tax, it would have been transferred to the Minister for Finance. If we accept that capital expenditure should increase not just for housing but infrastructure more generally, then the question is about how we get there. A recent IFAC report highlighted concerns about capacity and how this could stymie efforts to meet the existing capital expenditure targets before we even think of increasing them further. What plans is the Minister putting in place not just to meet the existing targets but the more ambitious ones?
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