Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
9:30 am
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I must raise the issue to engender some progress. The project would have died in 2010 if I had not intervened. The funding was provided; compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, were completed, and there was planning. Detailed design of the project is under way and will be completed in the coming months, but the Minister, Deputy Shane Ross, is telling me to come back in 2022, while the Tánaiste is delivering leaflets in the area stating the project has been included in the national development plan and will be delivered. However, delivery in 2022 is not good enough. I ask the Minister to come back to me with a commitment in that regard.
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