Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Select Committee on Transport

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)

We have a job of work to do there. To go back to the original question, we have entered into contracts on PPP and we are committed to those contracts. An example is the monitoring of our motorway network at both the Jack Lynch tunnel and the Dublin Port tunnel, where I recently visited the centre. There is an upgrade of all of our cameras and monitoring right the way across the motorway network. That is being delivered through the PPP contract. I see that as a way of dealing with this that assists us in being able to free up capital in other areas. The €98 million that the Deputy referred to is good value for money, given what we are getting. Unfortunately, it would not pay for the road to Cobh and we would need more to pay for that. What I would say to the Deputy is that we are committed to those contracts and to fulfilling and making good the conditions of the contract. There are benefits to that.

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