Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery
Planning, Approving and Delivering Transport Infrastructure Projects: Discussion
2:00 am
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
Even the railway order application is down for a number of years there too. My key concern around how long these projects are taking is this. If we put a team of, say, three or four consultants on a project then yes, it will take years to achieve.
Obviously, there is a major cost in the absence of this infrastructure. It will cost the same amount of money if we pay three consultants over three years or nine consultants in the one year. Can we not expedite these types of necessary steps for these projects?
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