Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard

9:30 am

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Before we move on. Mr. Spratt says that the date he has now is the best. Honestly, after the NTA briefing, many public representatives are scratching their heads wondering if there are any dates. We have not been given any dates. The only date that has been given is that the project will go to a railway order in the early quarter of 2022. That is welcome. Other than that, we have no other dates. I repeat the question. Perhaps there is a reluctance to be tied down to dates. Perhaps there are no dates at all. However, it is important that those dates are made public, so that we can keep track of delays. I refer back to the 2018 statements which announced the former Metro North. They were clear. They said that 2018 was the date for the emerging preferred routed; 2019 was the date for the railway order; 2020 was the date for the granting of the railway order; 2021 was the date for construction to commence; 2027 was the date by which the metro was to be in operation. Were those dates that were outlined in 2018 correct? Have they been revised? Why was it okay to publish them in 2018 but it is not okay to brief public representatives on them now?

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