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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I am happy to take it in writing if all the questions I asked are covered in the response.
On MetroLink, the various processes and decarbonisation were talked about. There is a new imperative in the climate budgets and transport plays a very big part in that. MetroLink is the biggest public transport project within the timeframe of those budgets. None of us are looking for inefficient spending, for things to cost more than they need to and for not fully evaluating everything that should be included but, surely, it will be possible, given the new space we are in regarding obligations, for the Department to at least parallel some of the processes to reduce the timeframe. If there are no timelines, essentially, it can be open-ended. What are the impediments to delivering MetroLink as quickly as possible?