Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. John Hennebry:

There are a number of options and some are more wise than others. One is to picket the schools and get ourselves arrested as a group of people. That has been suggested by many subcontractors. It would cause further delays to the State and the NDFA so they would incur further costs but that is not what we want to do. Another option is the legal option and challenging this. We have spoken about this in recent days. We are starting to build very strong cases to challenge this and have a judicial review on the basis the building regulations have not been met, which means the buildings would have to be evacuated and the children rehoused. Half of the schools that were there have been knocked down. Where will these children be put? There are many options available to us. Some of them are not very plausible but they are options.

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