Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion
Mr. Paul Sheridan:
We have been highlighting this since our correspondence back in August 2021. We outlined solutions and what we believed would work. We repeated them in February in another letter, and we met the Minister. We believe there are mechanisms and do not believe it could take so long to introduce them. Unfortunately, policy development and cash flow do not mix. What is happening is that it is taking time to decide on the policy we want to implement. We can understand the need to protect the taxpayer and industry and create a sense of fairness, but it is now critical to have a sense of urgency.
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