Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery

Role of Private Sector Construction Industry in Delivering High-Quality National Infrastructure: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. John G. Murphy:

The Deputy mentioned projects. If we look at the greater Dublin drainage project, the prequalification documents came out for that in about 2019, so money was spent by the industry prequalifying for a project, but it never happened. The Deputy talked about water from the Shannon. The planning has to be started, so it is talking about it and knowing where it is. We know where an intention for it to be is but, as Mr. Kenny said, we cannot really hire people with an intention that a project is going to start. Generally in the UK, certainly on waterways and water projects, when they do an asset management plan, AMP, they have a list of projects. All of those projects happen and they do not take forever to start because they are done with early contractor involvement. Literally, the day the AMP starts, they start working on those projects.

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