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. Micheál O'Connor:

Unfortunately, that is happening. As Mr. Kenny said, we are general and specialist contractors. We have a responsibility towards the environment and to be sustainable. There is a real opportunity for Ireland to deliver environmentally friendly energy and to work on that. Unfortunately, that is not happening at the moment.

The private wires Bill, which is due to come in and will hopefully come in, may well be a game-changer for some of those sectors. It remains to be seen if and when it will be passed and how quickly those energy centres will get through planning when it actually comes to it. It is really important for us as an economy for us to play our role in our industry and sector and to make sure we are delivering confidence and reliability to those clients.

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