Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Peter Walsh:

Okay. That seven-week shutdown produced a reduction in the projected expenditure on those 20 sites. We changed allocations and moved them around - we could do 2,000 changes of allocations in the past six weeks, or the latter part of last year - to ensure we would avail of the funding and keep the projects moving that were moving. We were lucky, in a way, that the CIF made huge efforts to put in place operating procedures the Government regarded as suitable for suppressing the transmission of Covid-19 and they were able to get up and running again after seven weeks, on 18 May. As such, they nearly balanced each other out-----

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