Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Mr. Peter Walsh:
I should not be trying to single out our organisation as being different from everyone else. It is a healthy opportunity and I would like to suggest that maybe some can be trusted to bring forward business cases that make sense. I know it was mentioned earlier that we have good outcomes. We have just completed the Dunkettle interchange, the Ballyvourney-Macroom project, the Moycullen bypass, the Westport to Turlough road, and the Collooney to Castlebaldwin road. Our total scheme budget for all of those projects together was €955.6 million. We have completed all of those projects. Granted, I am taking out the money that was an ex gratia payment for the impact of Covid but all were completed for €948.3 million. We are at 99.8% of the original total scheme budget across all of those. If one adds in the other money, which was an ex gratiapayment, it comes in at 1.4% above. There has been a war in Ukraine, Brexit and all sorts of impacts.
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