Over €150m spent on MetroLink project to date, PAC told

The Public Accounts Committee heard that to date €158m has been spent although"no significant physical work" has taken place.

Asked by committee chair Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley if the cost could be in the region"of €300m before we get going", Mr Creegan agreed that it was"the kind of order we could be talking about". Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe said €150m was lost on the Metro North project, largely due the project having been being stopped when an alternative route was chosen.Mr McAuliffe asked for details of the business case that justified"a Government agency to lose or set aside €150m" which will add to the eventual cost of MetroLink which is expected to reach"€10 billion".

Fianna Fáil TD Cormac Devlin said he was not seeing the level of urgency needed to deal with what he called a"serious problem".

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