Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
9:00 am
Mr. Ray O'Leary:
A number of road projects received early examination. I will ask my colleague, Mr. Mullaney, to comment further as he would be more familiar with the specifics. The outer orbital route mentioned was not one of the projects identified by Government for inclusion in the national development plan to go to pre-planning, planning and procurement and appraisal. In terms of status, this project is not progressing in terms of the priority list. The priority for the roads budget is to get us back to a level of where we are maintaining steady-state maintenance, with new projects coming on stream incrementally.