Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Upgrade of the Dunkettle Interchange in Cork: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Mr. Michael Nolan:
We try to invest upfront. If one reads the lessons learned on megaprojects in the UK, for example, a common recommendation is that more upfront planning is required, rather than barrelling into a project, and that is what we are doing by investing in it upfront. It may take a bit more time, but a stitch in time saves nine. If we invest more time at this end, we gain in both value and time in the long run. People may have expected us to get there a bit sooner but we are on target and stage one is where we should be at this point in time. There may have been some confusion as people saw us walking away, or being drawn away, from the site from the first quarter of the year until now, but that was always part of the process. I refer to Deputy Rock's point about what we do right. One of the hard lessons learned is that the more planning is done upfront, the better the outcome in the end. It also means people know what they are getting into, though they can never know everything.
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