Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if additional funding will be provided under the capital review for the tourism capital development programme; his plans for the phase 2 restoration works to Maynooth Castle, Maynooth, County Kildare, if additional funding is provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37037/17]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Programme for a Partnership Government committed to additional capital investment over the period of the Capital Plan to 2021, to be allocated on the basis of the outcome of the review of the plan.  Following the Summer Economic Statement 2017, Government plans to invest an additional €4.1 billion in key infrastructure supporting economic and social progress.

As part of the review of the Capital Plan, submissions were received from Departments and a public consultation process was also undertaken by my Department. The Deputy will appreciate that it is a matter for each Department, in the first instance, to identify its sectoral priorities and projects in their submission for any additional funding under the review.

Analysis carried out as part of the review includes an infrastructure capacity and demand analysis which will help inform decisions by Government in the context of Budget 2018 on the allocation of the available resources.  Any decisions on the capital allocations will not be made until after that process is completed at Budget-time.