Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement

9:00 am

Mr. Robert Watt:

-----with regard to the projects and how it is going to be funded for this year. The capital plan in Project Ireland 2040 by its nature will be iterative. We need to be honest about this with people. There will be projects that will accelerate, there will be projects that will not go as fast as we expect, and profiles will have to be adjusted in the future no matter what Government is here. That is the nature of it and it is a longer-term plan. These are the key projects the Government feels should be supported and most of them are supported by every Deputy in the House. It is common sense to improve roads, schools and hospitals and so on. How the plan is delivered over time, however, will evolve. It is not cast in stone. It will evolve and-----

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