Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Gerard Brady:
If you look at infrastructure as well, there are lessons that can be learned from other areas of infrastructure. We have a good track of being on time and on budget in some areas, such as roads. We do things well in some areas. Sometimes we can be overly critical of ourselves, but there are other areas, particularly more complex areas, where the design of how we deliver, in particular, through the public contract, can set things up to effectively overrun, and the way it is set up from the very beginning sets it up to become a fight between the contractor and the State rather than setting it up to be something that they are working on together to try to reduce cost. There are things we can do around public contracting. I am happy to share some of the detail of that with the committee.
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