Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)
2:00 am
Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent Ireland Party)
And also for the procurement for us contractors to get on that. We are saying that we have a shortage of large contractors that can do this, but the criteria around getting contractors to do even the smaller projects involve them having to show that they have already taken down €2 million or €3 million worth of projects already. They may have done it for the private sector, but it does not show that they have done it for the public sector so they do not qualify, even though they have done projects of the same size. It would bring more competition to the market as well. I thank Mr. Brady.
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