CIE inquiry to continue today

The Oireachtas inquiry into CIE’s controversial mini-CTC signalling system will resume public hearings this morning.

Members of the inquiry are expected to question executives from Price Waterhouse Cooper, which compiled a report on the mini-CTC system for CIE in 1999.

The inquiry heard yesterday that PWC was only asked to draw up a draft report and was not asked to investigate a deal struck between CIE and ESAT which allowed the phone company to lay telecom cables along rail lines.

It also emerged yesterday that a second signalling project at Heuston Station in Dublin has doubled in cost from its original estimate.

This system is £12m above budget and two years behind schedule.