Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 31 - Transport
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 9 - Appraisal of Rail Project Investments
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 21 - Collection of Motor Vehicle Taxes
Financial Statements: Motor Tax Account 2024
2:00 am
Mr. Ken Spratt:
We will publish our NDP sectoral plan over the coming weeks. They are being published in a staggered way by Departments. We are up at the end of November. That will set out the allocation we have over the course of the next five years, including 2026. I want the committee to understand that, although we have €24.3 billion to spend over the course of the next five years, it is actually about €13 billion to €14 billion less than what we looked for. What we looked for included everything we could possibly do over the course of the next five years, including Finglas Luas. In that, we will have 22 projects that are in excess of €200 million, which will be either delivered or in construction by the end of 2030. We also have 22 roads projects over €200 million, which will either be in construction or delivered between now and 2030. When it comes to the prioritisation of that, we spend a lot of time trying to figure out with our Ministers where is the biggest bang for buck service delivery. It is absolutely the case that projects like Finglas Luas will deliver big bang for the buck, but it has to be considered in the overall context of what is available throughout.