Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Role and Operation of National Development Finance Agency: Discussion
1:30 pm
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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There is no harm in breaking a mould that does not work and introducing something that might put manners on the industry. Carillion may have been the cheapest bidder, but we have a great country; history tells us that we built America and England, including London. Some of the biggest companies of one kind or another are Irish made. Our attraction to going beyond our shores in procurement baffles me.