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- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: Is it not the case that part of the logic in using PPPs is that the private sector would take on some of the risk? That is what we are told and I suppose it is part of the attraction for the State also. If we are sharing the risk, we are making it easier as we are lightening the load of the private sector. PPP projects seem to be in areas where there is not much risk at all, but that is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: We will stick with tolls and PPP projects for the moment. I imagine at concept stage that targets are set for volumes of road users who would pay tolls.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: Is there an analysis the witnesses can share with the committee of targets set before a road was constructed, for example, X number of vehicles paying a toll over X number of years and cases where the targets were not met? Will Mr. Nolan or Mr. Kennedy point me to any part of the country where targets were set prior to construction and where those targets are not being met?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: I asked a specific question. I will be pulled up on time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: Perhaps I might be more helpful. I am thinking specifically about the toll road in Waterford, the Waterford to Cork road that was built as part of the Waterford to Dublin motorway project. Obviously, clear targets were set at concept stage pre-construction. Have they been met year-on-year? I appreciate that the witnesses carry out a long-term analysis, but have the targets been met for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: They have not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: If that is the case, has a possible buy-out been looked at? Is that something that could be examined if the targets are not been met?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: I understand that, but I am asking whether it has been examined.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: Is this one example where the private sector got it wrong?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: It got it wrong.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: I certainly do not want to make that argument in the case of the Waterford bypass.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: Notwithstanding that, I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for his response. I will focus on roads and depreciation. It has been said there is a figure of €1 billion every year for depreciation. What correlation is there between the figure for the depreciation of roads and the cost of maintenance and upkeep of roads?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: I just have one more question. For example, if we do not improve roads and do not spend enough on maintenance, will that increase the figure for depreciation? I am being put under pressure, but I have a number of questions about roads. There are two road projects that are very close to my heart. One is the upgrading of the Waterford to Cork road, while the other is the Waterford to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: My last question is about light rail. When I ask this question I am conscious of the episode of "The Simpsons" in which a monorail was built in Springfield. I am not in that territory, but I am trying to imagine for one second the new national planning framework which looks at the concept of regional cities and refers to the building of cities and doubling populations. In that context,...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: Wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: It does. The Taoiseach has not bothered to read it.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: No, it is plus €691 million.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: It is.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: The Taoiseach does not want to hear it.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Eligibility (10 Oct 2017)
David Cullinane: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person that purchases a new build with a local authority mortgage is eligible for the help-to-buy scheme if that new build matches all the criteria for the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42501/17]