35. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on Government plans for capital investment, given the desperate need for this in housing, health, infrastructure, public transport and so forth and in the context of the European Commission country report for Ireland 2016 which states that public investment under the capital spending plan for 2016 to 2021 is back-loaded towards the end of the plan's duration, as the Government has given preference to tax cuts and other expenditure increases at this time, and that in 2016 Government investment is actually projected to contract by 1.4% compared with 2015 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13251/16]

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35. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on Government plans for capital investment, given the desperate need for this in housing, health, infrastructure, public transport and so forth and in the context of the European Commission country report for Ireland 2016 which states that public investment under the capital spending plan for 2016 to 2021 is back-loaded towards the end of the plan's duration, as the Government has given preference to tax cuts and other expenditure increases at this time, and that in 2016 Government investment is actually projected to contract by 1.4% compared with 2015 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13251/16]

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