Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Review of the Capital Plan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland

2:00 pm

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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Were there cost benefits to the merger of the organisations following austerity? Did the staff of the procurement agency and roads authority simply merge? Different Oireachtas committees, such as the committee on transport, invigilated both.

Does CIE have a separate track of possible capital projects? The Railway Procurement Agency seemed to deal with Luas and the Metro systems but does CIE operate as another transport capital agency, distinct from TII?