Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 May 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority
9:30 am
Mr. Garret Doocey:
No problem. I totally agree about joined-up thinking. We need joined-up thinking at the central level between the Department, the NTA and TII, and within the Department's regional local roads division. I hear what the Chair is saying about joined-up thinking at local level as well. I would make a point about the projects on the ground. They are put in place subject to whatever the most appropriate statutory framework is. They are put in place under statutory frameworks, whether that is a Part 8 planning permission or another statutory framework that is available, such as section 38. That is a decision at local level.