Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We welcome the Ireland 2040 programme and any capital investment project. We are delighted with programmes where contracts have commenced, for example, the Naas bypass and the Dunkettle interchange project. However, I ask whether the contractors are working within budget constraints. I have passed the Naas bypass project every week for the past couple of months and grave diggers would move quicker. I am being serious. One sees more workers working on an apartment project in Dublin. The contracts need to be increased. There should be more machinery on the ground and engaged in site works, otherwise it will take forever to complete the project. Are the contractors working within budget constraints or a timeframe? The projects should be moving quicker.