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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have to step out for ten minutes as I have to do an interview. Will I speak on this matter now?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: My view on this matter is well known to the committee. I saw the correspondence from the clerk whom I thank for it. I would not necessarily agree with it and one would not expect me to. We have unfinished business, particularly in regard to the process that was engaged in here. I believe there are serious issues with the evidence given. We are not getting the full picture. I understand...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: It could be a very short meeting, to be held after lunch some day for two hours.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: Agreed.

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

Alan Kelly: Can we have those figures broken down by project and by year?

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

Alan Kelly: Mr. Nolan will be glad to know many of my questions have been asked. In regard to the legal costs, has TII made provision for those in its accounts for the coming year? There could be significant variance, depending on how well TII gets on.

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

Alan Kelly: It goes up and down, I presume. With legal challenges, which are part of the run of the mill, are there any ancillary costs that impact on TII's bottom line because projects get delayed?

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

Alan Kelly: I am trying to get a sense of the scale.

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

Alan Kelly: What I am trying to get to is how TII quantifies these.

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

Alan Kelly: I know that. Mr. Nolan need not worry about it.

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

Alan Kelly: I am trying to get a feel for the ancillary costs that build up for TII, and how these hit us and the taxpayer, to quantify the amounts that are almost lost as a result of all these multiple challenges, but Mr. Nolan cannot really quantify them.

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

Alan Kelly: Is that how TII does the calculation?

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

Alan Kelly: I have an exercise for Mr. Nolan. Would he submit to the committee a table containing a breakdown of those costs, by year and by project, since TII's inception up until this year so that we can have a look at them? This is for public record. I would presume that those figures are quite high. There is no issue. TII has to go through a legal process. I understand all of that. I merely...

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

Alan Kelly: Sorry, the 2016-21 plan.

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

Alan Kelly: Are all the projects that were identified as part of that national road plan? There is no project that was listed as part of the Government plan missing off that.

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

Alan Kelly: So there is not.

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

Alan Kelly: Correct.

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

Alan Kelly: The Chairman is actually taking my next sentence.

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

Alan Kelly: The Chairman is after doing it for me. Mr. Mullaney might elaborate there.