Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform

Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed)

2:20 pm

Photo of Brian HayesBrian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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The Minister will not make the appointment. Subsection (5) states that failing agreement between the parties under subsection (4), the adjudicator shall be appointed by the chair of the panel selected by the Minister. The Minister is not selecting the adjudicators, he is selecting the chairman of the panel. It is then a matter for the chairman to appoint the adjudicators. The Minister would not be appointing individual adjudicators.