Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I welcome everybody from the Department of Transport here today for our questions and thank them for coming in.

I went through the Department's documents and the one thing that stood out to me in respect of nearly every Vote was that the Department surrendered money. In the first programme, in Vote 31, it surrendered €38.37 million. Could the witnesses tell me how much they returned under greenways? There was also an underspend, which Mr. Spratt has just discussed, of €59 million on EV grants. You would think there would definitely be no return on that when we are trying to meet climate action goals.

Can Mr. Spratt tell me why there was underspending and what projects were all those underspends for? Why was it not spent on what it was budgeted for?