Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery

Business of Joint Committee

2:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)

I suspect it will be at the top of the list. We will get the list of the top five or six. I suspect it will be there and if it is, well and good but if it is not, there will be other companies doing work for Iarnród Éireann or Uisce Éireann or our roadway projects and different projects around the country. It is important to hear from the people doing the work and getting that specification. They are the people at the end of the line who have to deliver the project. If the committee were to do this work without seeing and talking to the people who actually deliver these projects, it would be a major gap in our work. It is not a question of talking to every public servant in the country. That is important but we will want to move on after that. We do not have those names so we will ask the secretariat with the Oireachtas research facility to try to obtain some information. This meeting will take place later in the next session. We will get the other bodies in first so we will have time and will agree the names of the contractors ourselves. We will see if they are willing to come in at that stage. That will be when we get this in the next term.

That is as much as we have on that. Are there any other suggestions to add to the mix? This will take up most of the next term.

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