Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery
Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. David Moloney:
Ms Ivory will talk about the road safety infrastructure. I will first take the point about water supply issues in rural areas. We do not have enough water or a grid for 300,000 houses. There is no doubt we have to develop water and grid over the coming five years. There is no doubt about that. That will be a focus for the NDP review. There are probably two groups of experts involved in what we have described. One is the group of experts coming in from the commercial semi-State sector. The advantage of having them is that if they are in the room together, they cannot just blame each other. There is a coming together there. They are all public sector organisations, so they are within that chapeau. The other element is the membership of the accelerating infrastructure task force. We have standard enough rules for people to declare interests where they have them. In the main, with the membership of that, I think the outside expert members are all broadly retired from their main careers, although they may continue to have various interests. However, there are standard enough provisions around the declaration of interests and people are expected to declare interests and excuse themselves from conversations where they have conflicts.
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