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

Was the 2018 delivery schedule inaccurate. The schedule that I just read out that was in the NTA announcement in 2018 was part of the national development plan. Was that inaccurate? Was it underfunded? Why have those dates been missed? This goes to the heart of confidence in this project. If we are missing deadlines now, when we have not even passed gate 1, there are real concerns. I outlined the 2018 timeline which was: 2018 for the emerging preferred routed; 2019 for application for the railway order; 2020 for the granting of the railway order; 2021 for the commencement of construction; and 2027 for the metro to be operational. I have no update to the schedule. The NTA cannot apply new dates to that staging. Was it wrong to outline that schedule in 2018? Have those dates been missed? Why have they been missed? What is the Department doing to make sure that the NTA does not make further deadlines?

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