Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Shared Island Unit: Engagement with Department of the Taoiseach

Ms Aingeal O?Donoghue:

I will share these questions with Mr. Duffy. I will deal with the Narrow Water bridge and the strategic rail review. The Narrow Water bridge went out to tender on 21 April. It is a tendering process until 6 October, which might seem long but it is a huge project and very complex. What is useful to know is that, as part of the framework for capital investment, a suitability assessment on tenderers had to be done in advance. The tender has gone out to five companies that have qualified under the capital programme suitability assessment, so that is good and the fact there are five viable potential tenderers is also very good. We are due to get responses to the tender process by the deadline of 6 October. There will then be an assessment and we will have to update the business case in light of the tender - on the actual figures - and then the plan would be to go back to Government. I am a bit hesitant to give too much of a timeline but, clearly, we are into the latter half of this year, or into the last quarter of this year. I think the process is going as well as it can at the moment.

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