Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed)
2:00 am
Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent Ireland Party)
We have been talking about overruns in different areas. Since I became a TD, I have been asking in the Dáil for design and build. That means that when there is a design-build project, as happens in other European countries, we can develop infrastructure, hospitals, etc. If there is a design-build model, then the budget is the budget. There can be no overrun. Can we adopt that on some of the projects that we are doing? That would mean that the Government would not have an overrun, as has happened with the children's hospital.
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