Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery

IBEC Report on Infrastructure Ambition for a Competitive, Productive and Resilient Economy: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Aidan Sweeney:

No. What we are looking for is recognising an infrastructure delivery. There needs to be recognition that not all infrastructure the public consumes is actually funded by the State. It is about how when it comes to infrastructure that is privately funded, the barriers those providers face are also accounted for in the work of the reforms by the Government through the accelerating infrastructure task force in different areas such as the licensing or permitting throughout the planning system. Engagement structures where there might be trade unions and business exist under the construction sector group that is chaired by the Department of public expenditure and reform and there are other areas where we work with the trade unions on addressing many of those delivery issues. This is purely about the providers of private infrastructure. It is a mechanism for the barriers they are facing to be addressed. That is separate. It does not include the national broadband plan or different issues. It is about other infrastructure.

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