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- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: I thank the witnesses for that presentation, which was clear and to the point. I will now ask the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland to deliver its presentation.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Murnane. We will move on to Mr. John Jordan of Engineers Ireland.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Jordan. Before we go to members of the committee, I have one question. It is probably for the second group who spoke. When a project starts construction, why does the public always hear how there are so many changes needed in the design and layout during the course of the project and how there are so many changes made to big projects that were not foreseeable at the beginning?...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: One thing I heard there is that we need talk to the architects at this committee on another day.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: The last person standing gets caught for everything.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: I presume that on every major project, the witnesses go in and have an extensive preplanning meeting.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: Is that not the place to suss out some of this stuff?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: I know that, after that process, it is handed over like a judge making a decision. It is very impersonal after the planning application is lodged.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: That is quite a quote.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: I know.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: It is just so simple.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Murnane has just insulted the Cathaoirleach and Leas-Chathaoirleach all in one go, but we are thick-skinned in here and will get over that.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Clendennen, have you finished?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: Are there any final questions for our guests before we conclude?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: Yes, the Deputy indicated she might come in a second time.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: Would that involve exempted developments? Would part of it be that they are exempt to start with and there is no planning process once a public body-----
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: It is exempted.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: The clerk can email and get a formal reply back within a fortnight. If the Deputy wants to contact the clerk with some follow-up queries, the clerk will email them directly.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: While the Deputy is thinking-----
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: As I see it, there are three stages to big projects on the ground now. There is the planning application stage, An Coimisiún Pleanála and then the courts, and next maybe Europe. On all big projects that are in any way contentious, we can be guaranteed that that is the way it will go. That is a personal observation.