Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard
9:30 am
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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As for what the consultants will be looking at, is everything on the table in regard to new routes? Will they assess and catalogue, perhaps, railway lines that have closed and what proportion of those lines are redeemable? Will they analyse, for example, those counties that have no rail lines? There are five such counties, as I understand it, namely, Cavan, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Donegal. Clearly, there is a big gap in the north west and regarding access to the north west via the southern Ulster region. Will that be included within the scope?