Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

Was that discussed at the Ministerial Council meeting?

I would also like to ask about the Aughnacloy to Derry upgrade. It is lamentable that the State is pulling back from these infrastructural projects. Given that there is some level of commitment to continue with this project, can the Taoiseach investigate suggestions made by some of our party colleagues in Derry that there are serious questions to be answered about the huge expenditure on consultants that has been sanctioned to date both by the Northern Ireland Executive and by ourselves, in so far as we have any involvement in it? We are talking about millions of euro going to big consultancy firms. The Government should look into how money is being spent on these infrastructural projects, who is getting the money and what precisely these consultants are doing for a project that has not yet moved one inch.

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