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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The NDP set the target of expenditure as a share of GNI to properly account for inflation, especially when we are talking about a multiannual plan and indeed a multi-billion euro plan like the NDP. Since 2021 we have seen the high levels of inflation, particularly in construction, yet the funding was never adjusted to account for it. Budget after budget, the Government has acted like...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. In the written parliamentary answer she shared with my Department, she referred to capital spending based on the targets set out in 2021 and we interpreted the question as meaning the expenditure targets that were set out in 2021. I will certainly ask my Department to see if we can come back to her about what the expenditure would have been if it was based on a share of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What I am really concerned about is the deficit that is already there in terms of infrastructure, particularly in the region I come from, and the under-investment in the west and north-west region. Having not accounted for inflation in the way we do, I am concerned about the hole that is there and the cumulative impact it would have. That was my question. I see now in my own constituency...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: Across the same period, capital expenditure has increased considerably. In 2021 it stood at €9.78 billion. That was an increase of 19.8% versus the previous year. From 2021 to today, this year, it has increased from €9.78 billion to €13 billion. There has been a very big increase in the overall rate of capital expenditure. This has been done not just to cope with the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 44. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital underspend based on the targets set in the 2021 review of the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17724/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have raised the issue of capital expenditure with the Minister on many occasions. The NDP in 2021 set a target of 5% of GNI* to be invested in capital projects. The NDP states "the Government has decided to maintain the average level of investment in the new NDP at approximately 5 per cent of GNI* over the period 2021-2030". This has not happened in a single year since the NDP was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: I thank the Deputy. As Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, I am responsible for setting the overall capital allocations across Departments and for monitoring monthly expenditure at departmental level. The responsibility for the management and delivery of individual investment projects, within the allocations agreed under the national development...