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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Perhaps you could exchange some details later on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Next is Deputy Verona Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I will let Ms Graham back in in a minute.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Give the witness a chance to answer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: We have a lot of catching up to do. People will agree with that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I will come to the issue of the money now. I will revert to the spend to date on the metro north and MetroLink projects. Mr. Doocey from the Department stated that metro north is now a separate project. When I asked for clarification on this just after I started this meeting, Mr. Creegan clarified that €158 million was spent on the metro up to December 2023. Does that include the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I take on board Mr. Doocey's point that this was a policy decision and that the NTA is directed by policy. Let me clarify this. Is Mr. Creegan telling me that up to December of last year, we spent €308 million on a project that has not moved yet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: The MetroLink project.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Separate to that, we have spent €150 million on a project that is now over with. We are not going to do the metro north project.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I accept that. That is €308 million up to December and we are nearly halfway through another year. I know Mr. Creegan has given me the figures as accurately as he can. I thank him for that. If I heard Mr. Creegan correctly, he said that the projected cost of MetroLink before the preparation work, the planning and everything else that has to be done - I understand there is a lot of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: So it will cost €300 million for MetroLink and we have blown €150 million on metro north. This will mean we will have spent almost €500 million on the metro to the airport before we even send a Himac or a JCB out to the site.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Of course I have.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I know this is a policy decision. I am not necessarily hammering the NTA on this issue. It is new to me that €450 million will be spent on the metro project without ever buying a carriage or a metre of rail line, and without sending a digger or somebody with a hard hat out to the site to work on the project.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Does Mr. Doocey want to answer that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: This cost is astronomical.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: We would have to debate that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: €150 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I understand that but the fact of the matter is that the aim is still the same - it is to get a connection between the city centre of Dublin, the north of Dublin and the airport.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It seems that an incredible sum of money has been spent without anything happening, and without anybody being able to see physical work starting. I take on board the point that politicians have a job to do to try to shorten these processes. We do not want to take shortcuts because it is not about carrying out cowboy projects. We need to speed up the planning and preparation stage. We need...