Jim Higgins (Fine Gael)

Extravagant figures are being agreed county by country and this is from a Government that abolished the first-time buyer's grant of £3,000 or €3,700 last year. I am looking at the figures, for example, on capital expenditure. That is where the money should be going, into capital expenditure, into transport, into infrastructure, into developing the nuts and bolts of the economy to attract investment and keep the wheels of industry moving. Capital expenditure is painfully inadequate in this set of Estimates.