Noel Treacy (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

The planned changes in public construction and construction related contracts involving a move to fixed price contracts will shift risk to private contractors and provide much greater cost certainty in future construction projects. The majority of projects constructed in the past two years, especially in the key transport sector, are coming in on budget, with many ahead of schedule. These include the Monasterevin and Cashel bypasses opened in 2004, the Dundalk bypass, which was a public private partnership project, the Heuston Station redesign and the DART upgrade project opened in 2005.

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