Maurice Quinlivan
Question:202. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Finance further to his response at the Committee on Housing and Homelessness to this Deputy's question regarding flexibility in the fiscal rules for capital investment and subsequent reports regarding the new programme for Government, which provides for a cumulative additional €4 billion and given the favourable treatment of capital under the fiscal rules, the way the expenditure benchmark will be impacted by this proposed increase in capital expenditure and the scope for increases in capital expenditure to 2021 due to the flexibility vis-à-vis capital expenditure and the smoothing of investment over a number of years; the way in which this increase in capital expenditure will impact on the recent capital expenditure projections contained in the Stability Programme update for 2016, (details supplied); and the amount by which he expects the €3.8 billion capital allocation for housing will increase. [10041/16]
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