Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Review of the Capital Plan: Construction Industry Federation

4:00 pm

Mr. Pat Lucey:

I have to add a few points to this. I am not a great fan of public private partnerships, PPPs, myself. That is purely because we like the builds and we do not like to get involved in all the financial modelling. They are sometimes a necessary evil if there is no funding. On the question of whether we are the right people, I have no doubt that we are the right people. I thought for an instant that the Deputy was going to suggest contractors coming in from wider Europe to tender for our work, something that has failed miserably-----