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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

...I will come in on that one from a departmental perspective because it is an important point about oversight of expenditure, and given the committee we are in front of. The money that was spent on metro north was expended in line with applicable Government policy and financial procedures at the time and subject to scrutiny through the Comptroller and Auditor General, etc., on a project...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...a civil servant with creating a tender for the national children's hospital. There are people who are responsible for the spending disaster that has happened. Some €300 million has been spent on the metro north system and there has not been even a shovel put into the ground. Down in Midleton we have old people working as human water gauges trying to look at the amount of water...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...will have to pay for it in the future. The Government is already incinerating hundreds of millions of euro in waste, including €2.25 billion on the national children's hospital and €300 million on metro north and the shovel has not even been put into the ground. The Government spent €22 million on ventilators that do not work and is spending €50,000 a year on...

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...3,150 people have died as a result of accidents in HSE services over the last five years while 1,100 people died before an ambulance arrived because ambulances are arriving later and later. Some €300 million has been spent on metro north before a shovel has been put into the ground. People in Midleton are staying awake at night to act as human water gauges because of the lack of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: ...the talk about spending codes and business plans, when big projects hit Cabinet, it is to Dublin and Cork they go and the rest of the country can wait. All of this is before the absolutely ludicrous price tag of metro north or the finalisation of the children's hospital bill. As a country, we apparently just have to close our eyes and cough up billions. In 2011, Fine Gael's promise to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I will give another example from personal experience. This is why I am so passionate about the issue. When we were previously in government, I was really pushing metro north. I was involved in that in the nineties and saw the sense of it. In the period from 2007 to 2009, with a lot of resistance from the Department of public expenditure and reform, I was saying we had to build it. It was...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (7 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...transport infrastructure, including MetroLink. Between the start of 2018 and end-December 2023, a total of €161.68 million was invested in MetroLink. Expenditure prior to 2018 was on the old Metro North scheme. While it is too early to give a precise project cost, as it has yet to go through the planning and procurement stages, the Preliminary Business Case provided a range...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Peadar Tóibín: ...those types of overruns? I can think of many other examples as well. For example, the Minister, Deputy O’Gorman, promised 700 rapid-builds in June 2022. The majority of those have not been built yet. About €300 million has been spent on metro north but not a shovel has been put into the ground. The people of Midleton have had their livelihoods severely impacted during...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the 5,500 target. The Government has proven to be incompetent at delivering public infrastructure over and over again. Whether it is the national children's hospital, the flood defences in Midleton, metro north or the building of houses for people, this Government cannot do infrastructure. It just finds it impossible to deliver. Planning is still a disaster. An Bord Pleanála...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)

Martin Kenny: ..., steering the ship and keeping it on an even keel. We need to establish our priorities and Mr. Strachan mentioned a number of them. I would like more detail on the priority being given to metro north, which has been a bugbear around this place for over 20 years. It has been a long time talked about but nothing has happened. The main airport in Ireland, Dublin Airport, is one of the...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Róisín Shortall: ...squandered huge amounts of public money. In July, the PAC published a report on transport expenditure and found that a total of €300 million had already been spent on the various iterations of the metro, including €99 million on the abandoned metro north and €18.7 million on metro west. The NTA estimates that each further year of delay would add an additional cost of...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Government has been an accountability free zone in terms of the delivery of capital infrastructure for the past number of years. There has been a €1.4 billion overspend on the national children's hospital. The project is six years behind schedule. For metro north, €300 million has been spent and not a shovel has yet been put into the ground. We talk about the Green Party...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...infrastructure. On landside, we will add much more public transport infrastructure, parking and car hire facilities. I hope many more people in the years ahead come to Dublin Airport on the bus. I hope, from about 2035 onwards, that people will take metro north. That would be great as we would have fewer vehicles coming with individual drivers and fewer people sitting on their own in...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...is a key document on how we direct and spend public money for the public good, but at the moment it is entirely silent on climate and the life-cycle emissions impact. Deputy O'Connor referred to metro north. That is key infrastructure that should, in the longer term, have a positive contribution to make in driving down our emissions, and it should be a key consideration in process. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed). (26 Oct 2023)

...the challenges, for example, when community and commuters hit off each about bus lanes or whatever, and if a mayor fails in that duty then he or she will not get re-elected. To go back to when metro north, not MetroLink, was proposed, I remember that the cost of car parks that might be needed in order to prevent some of the cars coming into the city, when the DART underground and metro...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...capital pot each year. The decision to be made is really what is spent in Dublin and what is spent outside it, but it will still be one pot, I imagine. The decision around the cancellation of metro north was down to a funding issue more than anything else and an inability of the Government of the time to fund the project, so that would have been the case-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessibility: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Dessie Ellis: ...better because I have found it does not seem to bring the Garda quickly enough when it is used. I would appreciate some information on that. On access to Dublin Airport, we have talked about metro north for years and people with disabilities could avail of it. We have engaged with the NTA for years on the issue of metro north, a Luas to Finglas or whatever. We get so many plans but...

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...I accept that radically scaling up public transport infrastructure cannot be done overnight but we have been talking about investing in significant transport infrastructure for decades now. A case in point, obviously, is metro north, metro link or whatever you want to call it. We are now on the third iteration of a metro to serve Dublin Airport and all of the neighbourhoods in between...