Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I will get to that as well. Before Covid and before there were any possible delays arising from Covid, regarding the metro north which was essentially a year or so after the timeline was published, TII fell at the first goal. When TII gave the deadline of quarter 3 of 2019 for the railway procurement order and the 2027 operation date, why did TII publish those two dates and did it believe they could be met at that time?