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:

Most of the projects we do are design-build for public and private. A difference between Ireland and the rest of the world is at tender stage in Ireland, you are expected you to do a design whereas, in the rest of the world, the design happens after you have won the project. The detailed design happens afterwards whereas there is an expectation in Ireland that you do the design before you start the project which makes it very costly for tendering. If you get five tenders, somebody effectively pays for five designs even though only one will be used.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.