Kathryn Reilly (Sinn Fein)

The package is a fudge. The capital budget will be cut by €755 million in 2012, and the Government has already announced its intention to cut the capital spend by €560 million in 2013 and by €120 million in 2014. We are told the package will create 13,000 jobs. In the programme for Government, the Government undertook to have 100,000 more people in work by 2016.

The projects announced are worthy and there are many others throughout the State that have not made the list.