Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Fleming and I discussed this in the last Dáil when we were on the environment committee. It is not just concerned with the schools building programme but also uncompleted housing estates, even before the property collapse, and the builders who reneged on development bonds, did not adhere to planning application conditions and who were serial offenders in this regard but who kept coming back and getting local authority contracts.

I am not too sure what the legal standing of it is because every contract might be looked at entirely separately but there is an issue with the State giving money to people who are perceived to be or have been identified as serial offenders regarding undertakings they have given on behalf of the State. There is some merit to it and perhaps it could be looked at by the Minister.