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

Photo of Joe NevilleJoe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I am only thinking of that in context because there is a bit of a fear with a lot of public bodies, State organisations and the general public. There are question marks as to how public infrastructure is delivered. The question I always wonder about and come back to is whether the tenders are done wrong. Are they underspecified or overspecified? Are there specification changes in the process? What typically leads fundamentally to the gap between the initial and final quotes? I do not want to use that one example specifically, but I am just saying there is a huge, broad frame. If there were a mistake in a project that was being started now that the witnesses felt would lead to a gap in its future delivery, what would be the main issue that could lead to that?

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