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
Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
I am not sure who spoke about the breadth of his company's experience, having worked in the FDI sector for the past 60 years. Was it Mr. O'Connor? I apologise. He talked about that experience. That spoke to me as much as anything else that was said today - that knowledge of working out, being able to go to the UK and have all this knowledge. I am thinking of Intel. It delivered a huge project in Leixlip. I live in Leixlip so I am using what is familiar to me. Would those projects be delivered as Mr. Sheridan just described? Is the design part something the companies work through at that stage? Is there a difference with the FDI approach? I do not want Mr. O'Connor to contradict Mr. Sheridan; it is not about that and I am not questioning one over the other. If it is successful there, is the State using a different model?
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