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. Sean Finlay:
No, certainly not. What we are looking for there is an attempt to rationalise and co-ordinate environmental requirements and laws that at the moment are not co-ordinated, and who better to ask to do that than lawyers and the Law Reform Commission? It is referred to in the recent report my colleague Mr. Dempsey referred to. Infrastructure developers are investing more time on regulatory and environmental processes whose implementation in Ireland appears to be disproportionate in comparison to peer countries. That refers back to the earlier question to the SEAI to give examples of that. We could certainly could come up with examples of that for the committee.
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