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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: How would the shared responsibility or the onus work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is literally offering up the receipts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: How specific are these contracts? I imagine there are broken down costs and one is giving a general indication of the separation between costs and everything else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: One has to separate out the work and labour versus the costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Does the NEC have a facility relating to that pre-consultation part between client and contractor? It seems to make a lot of sense from the point of view of catching mistakes, obstacles or difficulties down the line.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It makes complete sense. The witnesses have spoken to who they need to speak to, and their speech as to what is needed is in the public domain. It is just the sooner, the better. It is absolutely necessary. For almost every person who has appeared before the committee in the last while there are two issues, tendering and the planning process. With regard to fixed-cost tendering, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all understand that there must be consultation. Sometimes the best thing to do is to carry out pre-consultation with communities for bigger projects. However, the fact is that there is a problem in the system. There are a large number of people who may be looking at big projects and think they are covering everything from a planning point of view, but they cannot be sure that they can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In fairness, Mr. Parlon has been straight about the difficulties with costs, inflation, tendering and planning. I think he meant it in the best sense when he said we should never waste a crisis. Obviously, we have a housing crisis and have had it for some time. We have the particular humanitarian Ukrainian crisis which is also a housing crisis here. Regarding never wasting a crisis,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: What can be done better?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The State needs to deal with the tendering piece and then make sure it has the plans that will allow for the throughput. The CIF is saying there is sufficient elasticity to make it happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank Ms Graham and Mr. Creegan for coming before us. To follow on from Deputy O’Rourke, he put very clearly the issue of the unfair fares, as people see it, in such areas as Laytown, Bettystown, Gormanstown and Drogheda. If we want a fit-for-purpose system, as both Deputies O’Rourke and Matthews said, we have to make sure we have the pricing and infrastructure correct and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that. Without funding or Government putting those moneys in, the NTA cannot delivery. None of these proposals that relate to this will happen until this review process is over. The NTA will not be putting any proposals, let us say, to Government this year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that. Obviously the more affordable we can make it, the more people will make the decision but we have a particular quandary here. I imagine we have the same quandary elsewhere. I get that we want a solution that works across the board but we cannot wait forever or we will miss the boat, or miss the train.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that. It will probably take a while to see exactly how it goes. We need a solution, and the sooner, the better. My next question is on an across-the-board issue, and it is not the first time I have raised it, namely, the commuter Taxsaver ticket. It would suit someone who, like many others, is now remote working. It has gone over and back from Minister to Department to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Could we use a short-term fix-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: -----like punching tickets?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I accept that, but no system performs a complete check across the board. I accept that the honour system does not work in every situation-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The bigger question is on what technology is needed. What fix could be applied and how quickly could it be done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion (4 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Did Ms Graham say it would take a number of years?