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:

The capacity is there to tender and do the work. What you need to do is sequence the projects so the tendering teams have the time to go in. What we are asking is to be commonsensical and understand that these projects to be tendered for have a significant overhead on the industry and if a contractor is going to expend that money, it is a sunk cost. It has to be on the basis that that project is going to be awarded and delivered. It has to be.

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