Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We had a report on capital spending at Cabinet today. The amount of money the Government invested in public infrastructure is 30% higher than it was this time last year. The spend in the first six months of this year is 30% higher than the first six months of last year which shows we are ramping up investment in transport, schools, hospitals, broadband and all the key things we need to make our country work better and to create capacity. When it comes to new roads, there is a roads budget of €250 million a year. It was not possible to fund all the projects we would like to have funded in the envelope for this year. Discussions are ongoing between the Ministers, Deputies Donohoe and Eamon Ryan, to see if we could provide funding to progress some more projects next year. We appreciate that some are stalled and that is causing much difficulty around the country.

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