Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In short, the Department is saying, "God's in his heaven - All's right with the world!". I invite the Minister of State to challenge the thinking that lay behind that answer. The reality is we are seeing transformative change in the world we live in. There is a new expectation, for example, regarding offshore wind, or our capacity to build compact developments that do not just see takeaways for ten years before schools or childcare are developed. We have not got a strategy for exploiting broadband, which the Department opposed. We just heard from Deputy Hourigan how a fundamental block of using e-health is delayed. I invite the Minister of State to look at the infrastructural bottlenecks that are left, right and centre in every constituency across the country, including his, to see whether we can change the thinking within the Department.

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