Almost €250m spent on Dublin Metro projects and still nothing set in stone

(Left to right) Peter Walsh, Director of Capital Programmes; Michael Nolan, CEO of Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII); Anne Graham, CEO of National Transport Authority (NTA) and Aidan Foley, Project Director of TII as they announced details in March 2019 of the Preferred Route for MetroLink. File photo: Julien Behal

Almost a quarter of a billion euro has been spent on Dublin’s various Metro projects in the past 15 years, without any construction having ever taken place.

Of that figure, some €70.9m relates to expenditure for which no value has been returned, according to the National Transport Authority (NTA). Internal documents prepared for senior management within the NTA in October detail the total expenditure on the Metro North and Metrolink projects since 2007.