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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: ...like the those we are talking about? With regard to annual budgets, I do not know how Mr. Walsh as the chief executive officer is expected to plan five, ten or 15 years into the future. Has TII looked at the rest of Europe and how they manage their major capital infrastructure projects in the transport area?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: ...at a later stage, I believe we should look for an expert to come in here and look at multi-annual funding. When we are drafting the budget for 2025 we should look at all of the projects that TII currently has on hand and the cost of those projects and then add an addendum to allow TII to expand into new areas. That addendum should be multi-annual. It should be an annual thing. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Yes. Because TII is responsible for major infrastructure projects like this, has Mr. Walsh any explanation as to why projects in Ireland seem to cost multiples of what they cost in other countries?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: Yes. TII deals with metro and Luas. The Galway light rail system has been on the boil since I was a boy in Salthill and is still on the boil. The bypass is constantly being chucked out. We get so far and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: ...there are objections to planning. One member of the local authority might go rogue and decide to take out an appeal against planning or go to the courts with it. How much actual engagement does TII have with elected representatives, apart from Oireachtas Members in here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: If I am hearing Mr. Walsh correctly, if TII is operating in a particular area - we will say County Cork for the hell of it - it will deal with the executive of Cork County Council and that council's planning office. However, it is up to the county council to decide whether the actual elected representatives on Cork County Council should attend. Does Mr. Walsh see anything wrong with that?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: As Mr. Walsh can imagine, as Members of the Seanad, we get complaints from time to time that county councillors feel bypassed and excluded when decisions are being made so I am glad to hear that TII is happy enough to have them attend and to listen to what they have to say.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (2 Feb 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: I thank both speakers for being here to address the issues before us. I will turn first to TII. I have had some communication from TII. It is one of the great pities that such people cannot be here themselves to make their cases personally, but Councillor Duffy in Mayo has made a very strong case for the N26, which is a major route between Swineford and Ballina. The witnesses will be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan: Discussion (2 Feb 2021)
Gerard Craughwell: It does but I do not suppose it gives much solace to those who are using the road. I understand that TII has limited resources that it must work with, but Mr. Walsh might drop me a note on the matter and engage with Councillor Duffy and see how we might best spend whatever funding he has to make any improvements that can be made to that road.