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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Before the Senator spends too much of his time on this I just want to clarify with Mr. Walsh that in his opening statement he said TII was deferring all metro queries to the National Transport Authority.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Are the witnesses okay to talk about light rail queries but not metro queries? Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I just do not want Senator Craughwell wasting his speaking time asking questions the witnesses cannot answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: So Senator Craughwell's question is better put to the NTA when we bring them in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Walsh. I will give the Senator some more time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I hope Mr. Walsh will pardon the pun about being bypassed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is now my slot. As I said, being a Senator means you can be parochial because you have an electorate right across the State. I reached out to some councillors across the State, asking them various questions because TII was coming before the committee. I got a phenomenally positive response in terms of interest in projects. The TII representatives might not be especially impressed with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Even though the Rail Procurement Agency, RPA, was absorbed into TII, it is really the NTA that is driving. If I were to say that we want a Luas to go to north Wicklow, that would be a matter for the NTA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: The TII will be the boot on the ground delivering the project but it is not its call as to whether it will be done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I have some queries and the TII witnesses have agreed to take them and give me written responses. I will give a flavour of them because there are quite a few. Councillors, particularly in areas of great expansion and large population growth, are looking at the road network. For example, near me, in Sandyford, Stepaside, Ballyogan and Kiltiernan, there is lots of stuff happening. This does...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: At some point, I will let Deputy Crowe in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I would never say Deputy Crowe wanted to contemplate the Seanad but you never know. I hope he will not have to. There are a lot of issues. It is a flavour of the appetite from local authority members, on behalf of their constituents, in an interest in road projects, greenways, road safety, pedestrians and bypasses. Everybody, every day moves around. Of course, we talk about active...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: On national roads, full stop.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I think we are at 2.7 million already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I do not want to delay the meeting and I will let other members in. On strategy, who looks down the road? It is the local authority looking for national roads, is it TII saying we need national roads or is it the Minister? Who is the person saying we need a new road here or here, ahead of one there or there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Who has the final say? Is it the Minister?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: However, TII is the one saying to the Government that it thinks the Thurles bypass is needed ahead of the Arklow bypass or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Ultimately it is a call by the Minister, the Department and the Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I will come back to this. I thank Mr. O'Neill for his contribution.