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Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Is this for the N6?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Nolan mentioned park and ride and other solutions such as light rail. He said the cost of the city ring road would be between €40 million and €50 million per kilometre.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: For a 16.5 km road at between €35 million and €50 million per kilometre the minimum figure, which we have been given locally, is €500 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is the starting point.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The solution proposed for Galway is colossal. It is €30 million per kilometre for a 16.5 km stretch of road which I believe will not sort out the traffic problems, though I am in a minority on this. Has the TII or the Department looked at park and ride in Galway or are they leaving it up to the local authority? The local authority has failed to provide it despite the fact it has...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: There was not a strategy. That came afterwards. The proposal was for another road because the outer ring road had not gone ahead, following a European case.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: They went back to the drawing board. We had to go through a tortuous process in the city council to remove the reference to outer bypass in every part of the city development plan. The next thing that came before us was an inner ring road - nothing else. I might appear parochial but I am making a general point on sustainable transport, climate change and sustainable solutions to traffic...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Who might answer it?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Who has the proposal?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Is it from the city council?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Park and ride has been an objective of the city development plan since 2005 but has never been rolled out. No Government has ever insisted it be rolled out as part of a sustainable solution. Everything is reactive and the simpler solutions should be tried before we spend a minimum of €30 million per kilometre for a 16.5 km route that will add huge congestion to the roads. Is there...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that the TII has a major role in light rail.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I asked earlier if the TII was an agent or had any role in policy.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: If the NTA said light rail was a sustainable solution for Galway, the TII would execute that. It would be a golden opportunity for business in Galway.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: We have already done that. According to the briefing paper, planning permission was give some time ago for the N59 Moycullen bypass. It states that improvements on the line are complete and the design and tender documents for the bypass were completed some time ago. What is the difficulty with it?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Homelessness Strategy (17 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 69. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the analysis undertaken or being undertaken by her Department of the effects, both short- and long-term, on children and their development of homelessness; the way in which this analysis is guiding her Department's policy on the protection of children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43788/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 70. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the site of the former mother and baby home at Tuam, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43787/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (17 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name, position and grade of all Caranua staff; the vacancies at the organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43867/17]