Public Expenditure Policy
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-04
============================================================

Bernard Durkan (FG), Kildare North

I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply. I have in mind, for example, major savings that can be made in regard to the elimination of delays between the award of the funding in the first instance and the award of the contract. I know of situations, as I am sure the Minister does, where €20 million allocated ten years ago still has not been spent and is now only worth about €10 million in terms of achieving the target that was originally intended. The Minister has all the material at hand and he is focused on that particular area. I ask that he might review all those projections to try to ensure the nearest we can get to dead reckoning is achieved in the first instance, which will eliminate a lot of the debate that takes place afterwards. To proceed with the contracts in the shortest possible time will save a lot of money for the taxpayer and create a saving for local communities in terms of the delivery of a project they have been looking forward to.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2022-10-04/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:07+00:00
Sitting date: 2022-10-04