Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, because this committee and the public want to talk about specifics as well as all the other things about delivery and everything else. People will understand what we are talking about on this committee if they see the list of projects that are in the system. That might come along to us as well. The Department might also identify the ten largest of those 65 in the current plan that have not commenced construction. A number of the 65 might be at planning or design or tender. Some of them, we hope, are at construction stage or near commissioning. I have no idea at this point. We are here to get that information. The witnesses might pick the ten largest of the projects out of that group that have not yet gone to construction. We will ask on the document whether the 65 were in the original plan, whether they were in a previous plan or when it started, and the Department's expected date for when the project will be completed. Some of these might be five years or ten years. If we are talking about a water pipe from the Shannon to Dublin, how long is that in the system and when is the water expected to be in the taps in Dublin? Those are the kinds of specifics people are looking for to understand and to appreciate that work goes on. The Department might not be able to say specifically but it must have a target date, because if it does not have a target date, it will never happen. I ask the Department to give us its best estimate of the 65 projects but specifically as regards the largest ten because people will associate with the major projects, no matter where they are in the country. If the Department can find out the largest tenders in the system that have not yet gone to construction, it might give us a note on each of those.