Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority

9:30 am

Mr. Garret Doocey:

It is the job of the Department, and the NTA as the day-to-day approving authority, to ensure we get value for money for that expenditure as it is expended before we hit actual construction. We are assured at a departmental level that we are getting that value for money. The Government has approved at decision gate 1, which is now approval gate 1, the preliminary business case to allow us to continue to the next approval gate. As I explained earlier and as the Chair acknowledged, the money spent on metro north was a separate project. It was brought through under similar, appropriate guidelines-----