Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management
2:00 am
John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
I have engaged with the Minister on this issue but I wanted to flag it here. It is a key project and mothballing it back in 2021 was the wrong decision not just for Wicklow but for the greater good. It has a negative economic impact on the wider economy when thousands of commuters are stuck in traffic and delivery of goods and services is delayed. It is an oxymoron that vehicles are left idling in traffic when the funding was pulled for environmental reasons and redirected. I hope the scheme will be looked at on foot of the review and the decision reversed.
I will now open the floor to members, with three minutes each for additional questions, after which we will conclude. Is that acceptable to the witnesses?
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