Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)

We will check their status. The OPW has many contracts for Garda stations and millions of other things it does directly.

These are all the public bodies. I then suggest - we will work on this after those bodies - we bring in some of the engineering bodies in the country, such as the Engineers Ireland association and maybe some architects. They are involved in the design of all the projects. I would then invite the County and City Management Association, because of much is done through local authorities. Finally, later on in the next session, I wish to have two meetings with the main contractors who do the work on behalf of the State. I ask the secretariat, through the Oireachtas research unit, to find out who are the main contractors that may have recently completed a big project or are in the middle of one and have experience with big infrastructural projects. This is to get their perspective on how long the process takes and what the issues are. It is all well and good meeting every public body in the country but the men and women who do the work are crucial to the whole process. I suggest, after we have gathered some information, we bring them in.