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
Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein)
I have a question for Engineers Ireland, which noted that engineers are in short supply and that Ireland is going to need 22,000 additional engineers over the course of the next decade to meet the demands of various sectors.
Does Engineers Ireland think we can meet those targets? I am also interested in what was said about local authorities overseeing national projects. Are there any county councils or local authorities looking for that power at the moment or would be interested in it?
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