Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 31 - Transport
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 9 - Appraisal of Rail Project Investments
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 21 - Collection of Motor Vehicle Taxes
Financial Statements: Motor Tax Account 2024
2:00 am
Mr. Garret Doocey:
The ones that most prominently spring to mind are metro north back in 2011 and DART underground, also in 2011. They were projects that were brought through the planning process and significant expenditure was incurred. From memory it was about €150 million on metro north. I can confirm that in writing. That successfully received a railway order and then a government decision was taken not to proceed with the projects. That was obviously in the context of the economic and financial crisis at the time. More recently, in terms of projects we would have brought through, there are none that spring to mind where there was significant expenditure of public money on projects that have not been progressed to construction. There are projects, absolutely, that have seen significant expenditure and are now subject to judicial review or delays, etc., but none where a project has gone to government and government has said we are not going to go ahead with that project, or none that spring to mind.
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