John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

From this vantage point, how does the Minister envisage this playing out until the end of the year? Will Departments meet their spending targets? If not, how will those moneys be used? Will they be transferred to other capital projects, for example?

To date this year, the underspend in the Minister's Department is 11%. Can he paint a picture of how he thinks the figures will look at the end of the year?

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