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

Catherine Connolly: Will Mr. Nolan revert to the committee on that?

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

Catherine Connolly: I will, as long as the Chairman does not take my time.

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

Catherine Connolly: On the post-project reviews, is it TII's decision to publish those or is it the Department's? Can we have tomorrow the ones that have been published after five or six years?

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

Catherine Connolly: I have a difficulty with that, not with Mr. Nolan. I appreciate his answer. There is ongoing privatisation ongoing of everything. We had a budget. With housing, millions of euro are going into the HAP payment and then everything becomes commercially sensitive. We are left in a position where we have got rid of one God that knew everything and we have a new god of the market who now that...

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

Catherine Connolly: If we go back, Mr. Nolan is here in a group of gentlemen and one woman, who is very welcome, telling us that this is all good value for money. We see there are some that were not value for money, the two that have been mentioned, the Limerick tunnel and the other one. There are many questions that I will not get to, such as, who checks the traffic. Is there an independent person looking at...

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

Catherine Connolly: What of the VAT?

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

Catherine Connolly: Retrospectively?

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

Catherine Connolly: What period of time will be involved?

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

Catherine Connolly: Is TII in talks about that?

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

Catherine Connolly: When will that be completed?

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

Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. Nolan.

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

Catherine Connolly: To come back to the public transport element, I was delighted to hear Mr. Nolan state solutions other than roads are an integral part of the solution. To go back to Galway, a benchmark of €10 million per kilometre was given for a motorway.

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

Catherine Connolly: What would it be for urban areas?

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

Catherine Connolly: What might the figure be?

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

Catherine Connolly: Is this for the N6?

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

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Nolan mentioned park and ride and other solutions such as light rail. He said the cost of the city ring road would be between €40 million and €50 million per kilometre.

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

Catherine Connolly: For a 16.5 km road at between €35 million and €50 million per kilometre the minimum figure, which we have been given locally, is €500 million.

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

Catherine Connolly: That is the starting point.

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

Catherine Connolly: The solution proposed for Galway is colossal. It is €30 million per kilometre for a 16.5 km stretch of road which I believe will not sort out the traffic problems, though I am in a minority on this. Has the TII or the Department looked at park and ride in Galway or are they leaving it up to the local authority? The local authority has failed to provide it despite the fact it has...

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

Catherine Connolly: There was not a strategy. That came afterwards. The proposal was for another road because the outer ring road had not gone ahead, following a European case.