Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery
Planning, Approving and Delivering Transport Infrastructure Projects: Discussion
2:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
Exactly. We will be here and do not want to hear that the figure has gone up by 60%. The last question, which was touched on before, relates to every project. I want to know the construction cost versus the non-construction cost. I am conscious that there was a time when we were doing motorways when it was probably 80% construction. Years ago, a stretch of the M50 towards Dundrum - I am speaking generally, subject to correction - had a non-construction cost, which might include land acquisition as well, that was greater than the construction cost. We need to get a barometer for whether the non-construction cost has been creeping up as a percentage of the total project. I believe the witnesses know what I am coming at here.
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