Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I understand the capital carry-over is projected to be €800 million for next year, although we will not know without the outturn. The Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, can tell me if I am wrong, but in general I believe we are not constrained by money in our capital programme at the moment. The real constraints are coming from lack of labour and delays that arise in the legal process or the planning system. We are not short of money for projects. As the Deputy said, it is the contracting authorities and the Accounting Officer in each individual Department who is responsible for making sure their own projects are on track. They update us on the capital projects tracker spreadsheet, which is available for every member of the public to read. If they feel their projects are going to run late or they are not going to complete as many projects as expected within the time, it is up to them to tell us and tell the Deputies opposite at the same time.

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