Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of all capital spending on infrastructure under the NDP each year from 2000 to the end of 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11601/05]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Capital infrastructure investment under the National Development Plan 2000-2006 is primarily delivered through the Economic and Social Infrastructure Operational Programme, ESIOP. Total spending to date under the ESIOP is on target, and had exceeded €19 billion by the end of 2004, which is approximately 107% of the forecast expenditure for the period 2000-04. The NDP's ESIOP investment is delivering major improvements to the economic and social infrastructure throughout the country in the areas of roads, public transport, environmental infrastructure, sustainable energy, housing and health. The table shows the spend under each priority of the ESIOP for the period 2000-04.

The 2004 data is provisional and will be formally reported to the ESIOP monitoring committee meeting at the end of April 2005. The table shows the expenditure from all funding sources, Exchequer and non-Exchequer.

In addition to the above spending on national infrastructure, over the period 2000-04, some €2.4 billion has been spent under the local infrastructure priority of the two regional operational programmes. This spend relates to non-national roads and local environmental infrastructure.