Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 October 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Nolan:

It is for the totality. If I may Chairman, we constructed at great expense to the taxpayer a major portion of the national road infrastructure between the years 2000 and 2010. We constructed 900 km of new motorway and dual carriageway. All these roads will require significant intervention in resurfacing and asset renewal in the next ten years, as the cycle comes round again. While it may have been new infrastructure in the years 2008-10, it will come up for an intervention on its pavement in the next ten years. We will see a spike in our needs. As this is a high speed, high quality network that will be the focus of TII's attention in the next number of years.