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- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I beg Mr. Nolan's pardon. Will they report in the middle of next year or will they-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I could be wrong, but I get the feeling that there is no serious analysis of the effects of climate change and the need for urgent action in implementing policies across all Departments. It could be that Mr. Nolan does not have a specific role in this regard. It might be the Department. Does Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, have regular meetings on climate and change in its policy as...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine. I will come back to the graph, which is extraordinary, and obviously the TII has learned from that, but when a policy is built in to an increase, we are in serious trouble, are we not? If there is a policy that depends on increasing traffic on our roads all of the time and it is built in to public private partnerships, PPPs, is that not difficult?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I am delighted to hear that, and I will come to it, but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Absolutely, and I am delighted to hear that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I will come to that, and I wish I had a few hours to deal with it. If we look at the figure for the Limerick tunnel and the guaranteed level, it is way beyond both the medium and low growth of traffic. It is an extraordinary graph, and that is what was bought into. When does that contract come to an end?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is some-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Hopefully, we will never reach the guaranteed level because it is way above both the medium and low growth. How could that have happened?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: I have many specific questions, and I know I will be caught for time. Regarding goodwill payments to farmers, is that part of the TII's remit? The Minister signed off last year on farmers receiving so much money in goodwill payments over and above the price of the land. That has nothing to do with the TII. Where farmers do not go through the compulsory purchase order process but go along...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: It is reported in one of the newspapers that the so-called goodwill payments are to be paid to farmers and other landowners for not obstructing the CPO process. That entails payments. How extensive is that? Where do I see that in the reports? What will be the total payment per year and is it made throughout the country?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Would it be an extensive practice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Would it have happened in Galway with the recently opened scheme, on which I congratulate the TII because it was opened ahead of schedule? I would have liked to have attended the opening but it took place in the middle of the week, which begs other questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: That must be somewhere in the accounts, is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: From where does that money come?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: There is a capital budget for the construction of roads-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: -----and the purchase of land.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: Under that capital budget, the TII would give out money for goodwill.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What criteria are used? Who makes that decision?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)
Catherine Connolly: What would it amount to annually?