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. John Jordan:

The answer to the question on how we will get enough engineers is two-pronged. We need to generate our own but also through bringing people into the country with the international agreements we have in place. It is a mixture of the two. As Mr. Owens and a few others have said, if we had certainty of projects and a pipeline, we could then show people what we need to do, and they cannot say they are unsure whether it is going to happen. That is true not only for companies but for parents of children who can show their children how much work is coming down the line and how it is work on their doorstep, not necessarily up in Dublin. It will be throughout the country.

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