Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In fact, the delivery of elements of the national development plan are at the centre of the reason for putting down the question. In particular, I ask that the Minister would keep a close watch on what causes the delays. If a capital project is deemed to be good, healthy and necessary, why not proceed with it instead of having a situation where, in some cases, the relevant authorities seem to want to slow it down? If they achieve the result within ten or 15 years, it looks like an achievement, when it most certainly is not. The question of dead reckoning in the beginning would go an awful long way to eliminating the confusion that can arise afterwards and the vast amount of extra expenditure that has to be made in order to achieve the result that was originally intended.

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