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Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: May I cordially invite Mr. Walsh to travel that road as soon as he possibly can? It is only then that he would realise just how awful a stretch of road it is. It is arguably one of the worst national secondary routes in the country. Be that as it may, I welcome that there is an allocation in respect of Annakisha South, Clogher Cross and Waterdyke. I am disappointed, however, that the...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Has formal notification been issued to Cork County Council?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Mr. Walsh will appreciate the point I am making. If TII is only allocating €900,000 this year out of a budget line of approximately €10 million, the fear is that Cork County Council will get stuck in the gap.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Let me just finish the point, which I am making in good faith and respectfully. If Cork County Council gets stuck in the gap, having spent €900,000, but cannot go to tender, it cannot proceed to spend up to the figure of €10 million. I am seeking a commitment that following 2022, we will see the tender issued, boots on the ground, a shovel-ready project and that TII is...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Let me reiterate that. TII is issuing the notice to Cork County Council to go to tender and there will be a budget line for 2022 to 2024 that will absolutely deliver that project.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I thank Mr. Walsh. He could not be any clearer than that, which I appreciate. That gives us great hope. I refer again to the N73 and other such projects. Has TII given consideration to the budget line for major schemes in relation to County Cork? For instance, the Ballyvourney to Macroom project is coming in this year at approximately €60 million, or €61 million if one...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: The perception is that the rest of the county is paying for these projects.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: That is the perception.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Fair enough. I will move on. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has made mention of the efficacy of relief roads. I hail from the great town of Mallow. There is a budget allocation of €900,000 for the Mallow relief road, which is welcome and we are delighted. It has been a long-running campaign, as has the N73 campaign. These are decades-old campaigns. What will the...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I thank Mr. Walsh for his response. I welcome the commitment he has given on the N73. It gives me some hope, but we will have to keep an eye on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: If he could please give me a commitment that he will travel that road himself-----

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Doing that will absolutely and utterly change Mr. Walsh's perception or give him first-hand knowledge of just how bad that road is. I hope it might cause the situation to move more rapidly.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: No, but Mr. Walsh is the chief executive and he carries a great deal of influence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I raised a matter with the Department at our meeting. I am still trying to understand what the future of arts and antiquities storage will look like for the State. We were given chapter and verse on the current regime in north County Dublin, but what I am failing to understand is where future-proofing is taking place, given the involvement of local authorities, local museums, national...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: As the Chairman can tell, I am asking his advice and I thank him for that, but how would it be articulated in practical terms short of bringing someone back to the committee? I presume it would be done via further correspondence from this committee to the line Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I am in the late fossilised stage myself now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I thank the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: We can anticipate that there will be an exponential increase in the types of works. New technologies are constantly emerging, which may necessitate the need for a permanent and fixed venue or venues, but we do not have a permanent and fixed venue now. It is on a leasehold basis. I will take advice from the Chairman and the secretariat, as I wish to pursue this matter further. Forgive me...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: I raised the issue in the context of seeking to understand how each of the line Departments operates its relationship with An Taisce. I thank the committee for holding this item over until this week. I wanted to get a deeper understanding of how the service level agreements operate between nine Departments that are funders through the education silo of An Taisce. When I looked at the 2019...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Seán Sherlock: -----and allocating it to An Taisce, which I understand is essentially a membership organisation. When we look at the delivery of the programmes I referenced, we can see they are excellent programmes and we are very lucky to have an organisation like An Taisce to deliver them. I just wanted to seek clarity on that. Based on the correspondence, it seems individual line Departments are...