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

Shane Cassells: What about the M3?

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

Shane Cassells: Remind me again of the total project costs of the M3.

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

Shane Cassells: The figure of €706 million includes the €12 million that Mr. Kennedy has referred to in the payment costs so far. Is that correct?

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

Shane Cassells: Mr. McCarthy referred to how the guarantee payments for the M3 are projected to end in 2019 under a medium traffic growth scenario. The Comptroller and Auditor General has obviously garnered that information from TII. Is that so?

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

Shane Cassells: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General believe that next year will be the last year in which payments are going to be made?

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

Shane Cassells: This is what I am trying to probe. Clearly the M3 is critical and welcome infrastructure but it has a major flaw in that when it gets to Blanchardstown it becomes effectively a car park. There is no infrastructure to feed in to in terms of the access. Let us consider the growth figures. Let us suppose the figures were to grow at the levels that Mr. Kennedy is suggesting. Will the...

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

Shane Cassells: Maybe I was not clear, I am sorry, Chairman. I agree absolutely. I use it every day. There is no problem with the capacity of the motorway. The problem is when the motorway ends at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. We do not have "Back to the Future" cars. No one here is Michael J. Fox - we cannot fly across Blanchardstown. When we hit it, bar finding Dr. Scott, we are getting nowhere...

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

Shane Cassells: I am glad Mr. Nolan said that because I want to touch on that as well. I know rail is not it, but I will touch on that. In 2013 the then Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport and now Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, said that the money spend on the traffic guarantee payments would go a long way in terms of road maintenance and upkeep. How right he was. Let us continue in that vein. Can...

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

Shane Cassells: Does the Slane bypass come under TII's auspices in respect of work on the N2 project?

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

Shane Cassells: On land use planning, on which I touched earlier, it is stated in TII's report that it has significant responsibilities in terms of its input into development plans and strategic development zone, SDZ, local area plans. In that respect - things are picking up again - projects involving a lot of land in different parts of the country cannot be progressed through planning stage because the...

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

Shane Cassells: Where is the forward-planning section of TII in liaising with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in fast-tracking what is submitted by county councils across the country in the context of strategic infrastructure requests?

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

Shane Cassells: That forward-planning is key for us. Mr. Nolan answered me earlier when I talked about congestion. We have growth figures for the M3 which could relieve pressure on the Exchequer. TII is obviously hoping traffic volumes will continue to grow as it will relieve the pressure on the public purse. Equally, does TII have a vested interest in making sure rail projects in the area will not...

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

Shane Cassells: In what manner? The Chairman is 100% correct.

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

Shane Cassells: Mr. Kenny was very frank and honest, but when he responded to Deputy Aylward he remarked that toll schemes had not performed as expected, not only in this jurisdiction but in also in other countries. The M3 has cost the taxpayers €12 million since it opened. I am not satisfied. I accept that the Comptroller and Auditor General says that based on the information he received from the...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I join the Minister of State in praising the staff who worked so tirelessly in recent days. He is correct in what he said. County Meath was not as badly hit as some other counties but the staff were exceptional nonetheless and I praise them for that. Local government is an issue that is extremely close to my heart. It is of great importance to me, as spokesperson, and to my party...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: Hear, hear.

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (18 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I thank the Minister for taking this topical issue on the need for additional Garda resources for County Meath. To cut to the chase, I very much appreciate that the Minister is dealing with the macro issue of putting more gardaí into the system and ensuring the security of our country is strengthened even further. One of the key tenets of the confidence and supply agreement was to...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Resources (18 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I appreciate that the Commissioner is the person in charge of the deployment of resources. I acknowledged that at the outset. The Minister appreciates that decisions we take here on a planning matter create the communities we live in, particularly the very big communities that were created in the greater Dublin area. That is the case I was making. I was echoing what the chief...

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “notes the importance of local government structures in delivering services, acting as a forum for local democracy and representing local identity; regrets: — the abolition of town councils in 2014 and amalgamation of local authorities; and — that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (19 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: 53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to streamline Garda resources in the south County Meath area in which county boundaries and divisional boundaries are hindering efficient and effective policing in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44272/17]