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:

We spoke about multi-annual funding. There is one public body we did a lot of work for this year and we will be doing little or nothing for it next year. With the specialisation we have, we had a need to go and recreate that business abroad.

We would have won a load of projects in the UK and kept all those people busy because we could not wait. That is a five-year commitment. It is multi-annual because they do them on asset management plan, AMP, periods over there. Those people would be committed to the UK for five years. It was not really our choice but we had nothing else to do with the people unless you went and found the work somewhere else.

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