Brendan Griffin
Question:185. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Transport the amount of capital underspend in his Department for 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter [18833/23]
View answerThursday, 20 April 2023
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Deputy,
Please see below the capital underspend for the Department of Transport for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 in tabular format.
|
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
|
|
Budget |
1,981,240 |
2,527,500 |
2,547,000 |
|
Expenditure |
1,786,515 |
2,316,943 |
2,402,104 |
|
Amount Carried Forwards to Subsequent Year |
151,480 |
161,100 |
137,956 |
|
Net Underspend After Carryover |
43,245 |
49,457 |
6,940 |
|
Percentage Underspend After Carryover |
0.022 |
0.020 |
0.003 |
The reasons for the carryover of capital are as follows:
2020 Underspend and Carryover
In 2020 the carryover related to delays to some eSPSV grant expenditure, the purchase of hydrogen buses; the Knock Airport Apron extension project; some public transport infrastructure projects; and the Coast Guard building programme, particularly the Westport and Greystones projects.
2021 Underspend and Carryover
In 2021, the carryover related to the Shannon Embankment project, the Donegal airport fencing project, the runway at Waterford Airport, the Passenger Boarding Bridge at Shannon Airport; bus delivery delays as a result of a shortage in the availability of Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) equipment and an underspend in Active Travel Infrastructure as Local Authorities continued to scale up projects and resources to match the budget available, the budget having trebled to €360m from €123.6m in 2020.
2022 Underspend and Carryover
In 2022 the carryover related to delays in EV global supply chains and associated delivery of vehicles; delays in the delivery of bus fleet; the completion of the delivery of 41 new Inter City rail cars and ongoing delays to the commencement of Bonmahon Coast Guard station, the Shannon Passenger Bridge boarding project and the IWAK Apron project.
As can be seen, the reasons for capital carryover tend to vary from year to year and are related to a wide variety of projects across the Vote. I am broadly satisfied that the capital negotiated and invested in the period 2020 - 2022 has been broadly aligned with the planned outputs in that period. I am delighted that in 2022 Local Authorities had scaled up Active Travel projects to the point where the out-turn in Walking and Cycling Projects exceeded the planned allocation for 2022.
Road infrastructure projects in construction over the period remained on track, with the exception of the delayed Ballaghaderreen to Scramogue and Coonagh to Knocakalisheen projects, which were impacted by the entry of Roadbridge into receivership; and the delayed start of Shannon Crossing, Killaloe Bypass and the R494 upgrade scheme due to construction cost inflation and supply constraints.
Major public transport infrastructure projects, including BusConnects, DART+ and Metrolink are still progressing through the planning system and capital allocations made in the period 2020-2022 primarily supported progress through planning and design. Capital allocations for construction will be aligned with the progression of these projects in line with the Public Spending Code.