Feargal Quinn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Professor Bunni is very welcome to the committee. We are close neighbours and live in the same part of Howth but I have not met him previously. I am a great admirer of what he has achieved and what I have read in the presentation. One of the questions we had in developing the Construction Contracts Bill, which became the Construction Contracts Act, was how we would handle dispute resolution and whether it should be by way of mediation, arbitration or adjudication. Will Professor Bunni give us his experienced view of the difference between the various alternative dispute resolutions and why he accepts that adjudication is the one for which we have aimed in this case, with a very short timespan in each dispute?