Concerns have been raised by several Cabinet ministers over the Department of Transport’s failure to spend its budget on national roads, the Irish Mirror understands.
As Eamon Ryan’s department confirmed that it had not used nearly €100m of its budget for the first quarter of 2023, Minister Stephen Donnelly told his colleagues that his Department of Health had spent €178m too much.
Ministers were told during Thursday's Cabinet meeting that the Department of Transport’s spending on active travel, greenway investment, electric vehicle infrastructure and spending on national roads were all less than expected in the first three months of the year.
