Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery

The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Tim Murnane:

I would make a general point on collaboration versus adversarial contract-type arrangements. Unfortunately, the changes that were made to the Government form of contract in the mid-noughties or the Celtic tiger era really made construction an adversarial sport, if you want to call it that. Local authorities are victims of that as well in that everything is more difficult than it should be. If we go into a local authority with a planning application, there is not a sense of collaboration.

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