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- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. Mr. Walsh is very welcome. His written submission, which I read yesterday, is fairly concise. I invite him to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Walsh. The lead person today is Deputy Carthy. He has 15 minutes. I will alert him after 12 minutes have elapsed. Each other member has ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Your time is up, Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I will let you in for a second round of questions if we get through the first round fairly quickly. I call Deputy Dillon.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Very briefly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I suggest that if the Deputy has a specific location in mind that he passes it on to Mr. Walsh and TII. It is somewhere in Mayo and I know it is important but it is difficult to figure it out here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I call Deputy McAuliffe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Devlin has just joined us. I know he was unavoidably delayed. I will let him in after Deputy Sherlock.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: We are out of time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: We have gone way over time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Time is almost up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Hourigan now, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Perhaps we can ask the Department to give an outline of how much of that is in place at the moment. Would that be useful from the Deputy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I suggest Ms Brogan comes back on that specific question to the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Walsh. Members should indicate if they want to come in for the second round of questions. I have a few questions for Mr. Walsh myself. On the eight major road projects scheduled for this year being delayed, why would there be insufficient funding? What has happened to the funding for them? Has it been transferred to other areas such as greenways, blueways, cycleways and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I know the history of that. I have limited time, several questions and a few members who want to come back in for the second round. On the eight projects, I understand the competition and the logic for why we need greenways, cycleways, blueways and all that but I am asking whether the provision of active travel impacted on some of those falling back. It is a "Yes" or "No" question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: All right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay. However, there has been a substantial shift in funding with a greater emphasis being put on active travel. I get that but there is a balance as well because we must get goods to and from ports, people have to get to work and there are long distances as well. I raise the N80 bypass at Mountmellick. By the way, the Maidenhead work is complete. That was a good job. That was going...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: The county council management, the council members and the joint policing committee that I sit on are all in favour. There has also been some serious road accidents in the Derrycloney area, as one goes into Mountmellick. I do not want to be too local because it is local details I am talking about. Mr. Walsh might come back to me with a little bit more information. I know exactly where it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: There is a chance of a relatively quick win because the project is not a circular route around the town but will cut across a short enough route. The TII might wrap up the project because there is huge local concern about it. Also, the commercial status of the centre of the town of Mountmellick is not good. If we got the HGVs out of the centre, we might get more people walking and cycling...