Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge that this is an issue Deputy Shanahan has raised in the House on a number of occasions. I will ask the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, to consider what Deputy Shanahan has said in the context of the Estimates process and the way in which we allocate funding to the different Votes, that is, the different Government Departments. In many instances the funding is then provided onwards to the public bodies, but I think what Deputy Shanahan is looking for is a more detailed presentation of the geographic spread of the public capital investment programme. There is a certain amount of information online. I know the Deputy has been critical of the online tracker of major capital projects. I will ask the Minister to reflect on what the Deputy has said and to come back to him.

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