Money 'available' for infrastructure projects

MONEY is available to the Government to deliver much-needed infrastructure projects if it so wished, the Dáil Public Accounts Committee heard yesterday.

"The problems we have with infrastructure here do not relate to a lack of finance," chairman of the National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission (NPRFC) Donal Geaney, told the committee.

The NPRFC says it is willing to invest up to €200 million in public-private partnerships (PPPs), but suitable projects have been "slow to materialise".