Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In terms of speedy progress, I have identified two matters. The first one is our efforts to ensure that we have enough companies tendering for public service contracts so that we have an adequate level of competition within the tendering process to allow key projects to go ahead. The second relates to the continued challenges we have with cost-price inflation. We are not seeing the surges in the delivery of projects that we saw in recent years. The cost of projects is now far higher than it was before inflation surged, which creates challenges in the delivery of projects. I expect the further €2.25 billion that we have allocated will go a long way towards dealing with that. I have identified those two factors as the key challenges we continue to face.

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