NTA pays firm more than €110,000 per month since 2023 for communications advice
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Payments totalling €5.4m made to Q4PR for services Minister says are linked to MetroLink, BusConnects and Dart+ ...
The business of building public transport infrastructure is an eye-wateringly expensive one, as Irish taxpayers know only too well.
The latest projected price tag for the MetroLink rail project in Dublin is between €14.4 billion and €17.5 billion, having soared over the past four years. Hands up who thinks it will be delivered within that range?
Then there’s BusConnects projects for Dublin and Cork, Dart+ and a raft of other projects.
This might help to explain the large sums being paid for external public relations and communications advice by the National Transport Authority (NTA).
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