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. Tom Leahy:
No, it is not as complicated as that. This is my way of looking at it because we were recently at a conference in Vienna with our European partners and I had the opportunity to raise it with some lawyers who were presenting there. I explained the situation and asked how we could deal with problems of the common good because it was not enshrined in common law. One French colleague said he thought there were solutions he could recommend to us. He said he thought that some of the national legislation we had in place could be used to give us an equivalent foundation for the common good.
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