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- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Perhaps we can ask the Department to give an outline of how much of that is in place at the moment. Would that be useful from the Deputy?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I suggest Ms Brogan comes back on that specific question to the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Walsh. Members should indicate if they want to come in for the second round of questions. I have a few questions for Mr. Walsh myself. On the eight major road projects scheduled for this year being delayed, why would there be insufficient funding? What has happened to the funding for them? Has it been transferred to other areas such as greenways, blueways, cycleways and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I know the history of that. I have limited time, several questions and a few members who want to come back in for the second round. On the eight projects, I understand the competition and the logic for why we need greenways, cycleways, blueways and all that but I am asking whether the provision of active travel impacted on some of those falling back. It is a "Yes" or "No" question.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: All right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Okay. However, there has been a substantial shift in funding with a greater emphasis being put on active travel. I get that but there is a balance as well because we must get goods to and from ports, people have to get to work and there are long distances as well. I raise the N80 bypass at Mountmellick. By the way, the Maidenhead work is complete. That was a good job. That was going...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: The county council management, the council members and the joint policing committee that I sit on are all in favour. There has also been some serious road accidents in the Derrycloney area, as one goes into Mountmellick. I do not want to be too local because it is local details I am talking about. Mr. Walsh might come back to me with a little bit more information. I know exactly where it...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: There is a chance of a relatively quick win because the project is not a circular route around the town but will cut across a short enough route. The TII might wrap up the project because there is huge local concern about it. Also, the commercial status of the centre of the town of Mountmellick is not good. If we got the HGVs out of the centre, we might get more people walking and cycling...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: There is for some of the routes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: When these roads were built at the end of the 2000s, traffic volumes were increasing and were projected to keep going that way. With the exception of Covid, which we hope is a once in a 100 year event, there has not been any reduction and it is unlikely there will be because we are moving freight and goods along those routes. Is if fair to say the risk been talked up a bit too much in terms...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Where there is a claimed reduction in traffic volumes, does the TII monitor the volume of traffic?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: It is not just the company.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: On page 18 of the TII document it is stated that the Portlaoise-Cullahill PPP scheme cost €300 million, excluding VAT. I do not expect Mr. Walsh to have figures on this but perhaps he could come back to me on how much has been collected in tolls to date? I presume the amount paid to the construction company was 85% of the €300 million plus VAT. hat is my understanding of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I am conscious of the time and do not expect Mr. Masterson to have the details because I seek a few figures.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I ask for a note on the amount collected in tolls, the amount paid, the total annual operational payment, and there were any extra payments in terms of variations or anything like that. It has been said that nothing was paid in terms of the drop in traffic during Covid.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Walsh might come back to me confirming that. When we get to 2037, which is the expiry date for the contract, is there a bullet payment, which is how it is sometimes referred to, or a completion payment before the asset is handed back to the State?
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: Perhaps I could get a note on the condition in which a project has to come back. I am trying to get a picture of all of the finances for the overall project from the beginning to the end. I mean in terms of tolls for motorists, the cost to the taxpayer through the amount collected in tolls, the construction costs paid to the company, the operational costs every year, any variables and any...
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: We will move on to Deputy Devlin. A couple more hands have gone up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: The next member to speak is Deputy Verona Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (3 Feb 2022)
Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Munster.