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. Paul Sheridan:
A few of my colleagues will come in on this. It is a systemic approach. The JRs are a problem. They are being weaponised and are delaying projects. People are terrified. They are taking so long to dot the i's and cross the t's because they are afraid one administrative error will lead to a critical project not going ahead. That is the issue. What we are asking for as an industry is that the Government create the conditions to enable us to deliver for it. To do that, you create predictability. Nobody is saying that we do not want JRs. We are saying that JRs have to have rules and have to be much more predictable.
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