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

Neasa Hourigan: If the Luas side walking and cycling elements are being removed from the TII plan, when can we then actually see proper cycling infrastructure that provides the kind of network, the warren as I have described it, of cycle infrastructure on the ground?

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

Neasa Hourigan: I am very aware of the extra funding. The departmental officials may wish to answer this and representatives of TII may wish to row in. If we take the cost-benefit aspect and the money side out of the conversation, when the decisions are made, is there a view on the suitability of the options in the provision of walking and cycling along, in this case, the Luas route in comparison with the...

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

Neasa Hourigan: That is an important point. Is that done on the projects that are going ahead?

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

Neasa Hourigan: When two organisations and the Department are involved and decisions are being made over which projects will go ahead, is it correct that there is no set of tests for equality testing, diversity testing or gender testing?

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

Neasa Hourigan: This may be beyond TII's scope, but maybe the departmental officials can tell me. Is there a scoring document somewhere whereby the NTA took TII's plan and did that work? If so, can we access that and see it?

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

Neasa Hourigan: Can someone from the Department answer?

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

Neasa Hourigan: I am not asking about the greater Dublin area. I am asking about the decision to remove walking and cycling facilities from the Luas Finglas project as opposed to doing the greater Dublin area. One is much better than the other and I want to understand why we are not getting the good version.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Just to be clear, I want to get the answer from the Department.

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

Neasa Hourigan: Sorry, I did not mean to talk over Ms Brogan. Is there a document that has a score not based on cost but based on safety, women's access and safety for children? Does that exist in the NTA?

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

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the secretariat for that overview. It was very helpful. From the 2018 restatement, I have to say it does not appear to be a major financial issue, rather a kind of accounting error. Just for clarity, we are talking about many agencies. We made inquiries and we got responses back from them as follows. The Department of Rural and Community Development had no significant issues and...

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

Neasa Hourigan: I never suggested otherwise.

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

Neasa Hourigan: The point I was making is that the undertaking of a project like this is usually based on some kind of evidence or reporting, and that this is not the case here. Therefore, I am wondering what exactly is going on.

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

Neasa Hourigan: For clarity, before what I said becomes mischaracterised, not for one second did I say we should not be able to review any body, group or organisation that is receiving public funding. Nobody is suggesting that. However, I was outlining the fact that there was no significant wrongdoing found here. There are no questions raised by any of the many Departments asked about the matter; yet we...

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

Neasa Hourigan: -----it is not a benign undertaking, if you are going to introduce those kind of terms into the conversation.

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

Neasa Hourigan: I am not asking you to.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Waste (3 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current situation regarding legacy dumping of nuclear waste in the State’s south-western waters; the risk analysis that has been undertaken; the threat from military activity from other states in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5591/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (3 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the interactions he has had with the Data Protection Commission concerning the policy necessity of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill; the view that the Commission expressed to his Department with regard to the need for bespoke legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5427/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 241. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will liaise and consult with the Minister for Social Protection to determine if funding received as part of the basic income for the arts pilot scheme will not be taken into consideration when means testing for social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5609/22]