Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Changes to Public Spending Code: Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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The odd thing about it is that I always believed the Derry road should have gone ahead at the time and that there was always the strongest possible case, having, like everybody else, travelled on it on numerous occasions. It is a very dangerous road with much heavy traffic. It has growing vehicular traffic with heavy goods vehicles bumper-to-bumper on some occasions. No matter what case can be made afterwards to say that we saved money there, we did not. We lost money. That is a fact.