Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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614. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount already allocated and the initiatives and programmes implemented with regard to the €5 billion extra funding allocated for capital expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12792/17]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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A commitment was made in the Capital Plan to conduct a review in 2017 in order to take stock of progress and provide the Government with an opportunity to reaffirm priorities. Since the Capital Plan's publication, the Programme for a Partnership Government (PfPG) committed to seeking Oireachtas approval for additional capital investment of €4 billion over the period of the Capital Plan.  This was further increased to €5.14 billion in the 2016 Summer Economic Statement.

Some of this additional €5.14 billion has already been allocated as follows:

- €750m was allocated in the 2017 Estimates - €250m in each of the 3 years 2017-2019.  €450m of this was allocated to the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, in support of the Government's Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, with the remaining €300m allocated across a number of other Departments to supplement existing capital plans of those Departments, including: Transport, Tourism and Sport; Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources; Education and Skills; Jobs Enterprise and Innovation; and Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

- A further €1.75b was also pre-committed to supporting the Government's Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, bringing the overall additional commitment in this area to €2.2b.

The effect of the above is that there is approximately €2.64 billion additional uncommitted capitalremaining to be allocated, on the basis of the findings of the review.

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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615. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the mid-term capital review will be open to public submissions; if so, the date of the deadline for submissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12793/17]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, I recently announced the commencement of the review of the capital plan. As part of that review Departments have been asked to make submissions to my Department outlining their investment plans and priorities. Once these have been received from all Departments and in keeping with the transparency objective of the capital review process it is planned to publish the submissions on the Department's website.

Once this has taken place, my Department will commence a public consultation to ascertain the views of the public and key stakeholders on what our national infrastructure priorities should be in light of the Departmental submissions. This process will be open to all, consistent with my Department's November 2016 Consultation Principles & Guidance developed under Ireland's Open Government Partnership National Action Plan.