Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation

4:00 pm

Mr. Pat Lucey:

In terms of hard money, what we would say as an industry is that we will sit down with all of the Departments to work through what can be done in the fastest possible time. I would say as a priority, the Dublin metro and the DART need to be pushed. As a priority, we need to complete some of the major gaps in the road network. Some people might be against building a lot of roads but what we built has been such an asset to the country that the gaps like the Cork-Limerick route do need to be filled. If one was to spend €5 million this year on the Cork-Limerick route, one would get an enormous amount of value through the planning process and get an enormous amount of work done. It is the same with the DART underground project and the metro. There is a lot that can be done with what is small money in overall terms regarding the value of the project but it moves it through planning quicker.

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