Results 1-20 of 35,267 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: I advise members of the constitutional requirements that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable or...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: I do not know the answer of when the legislation is promised. I genuinely do not know but I hear it being talked about.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: There will be a few bodies like the Law Society. We will hold it over until January. We will not get to it in the next four weeks.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: Potentially for January. We might have more information on when the judicial review legislation is coming forward at that stage. That legislation will go before the justice committee-----
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: No. This committee has no role in legislation but the justice committee has. If she is talking about judicial review, it should be the justice committee. It is the line committee that will deal with that legislation, not us. Like everybody else, we will get on with the legislation if and whenever it is passed and I have no date for that. We will hold it over. She spoke to committees in...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: Yes, everyone is eligible to attend but it will probably go to the Dáil and the Seanad separately.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: It is.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: On the timetable.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: We will put different groups together and we will obviously have the Law Society and a couple of others who are practising in and have knowledge in the area. We can put that together but it will be January. Our schedule is fairly booked up until December.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: We will suspend briefly while we bring in the witnesses.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role of Private Sector Construction Industry in Delivering High-Quality National Infrastructure: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss the role of the private sector construction industry, including international comparisons, in delivering high-quality national infrastructure. I am pleased to welcome Mr. Andrew Brownlee, who was with us previously, Construction Industry Federation, CIF; Mr. Paul Sheridan, main contracting and civil engineering director, Murphy Ireland; Mr. John...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role of Private Sector Construction Industry in Delivering High-Quality National Infrastructure: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Brownlee. I have several questions. I will just put one and come back later. People will be amazed to hear that over 60% of the top 50 Irish contractors are exporting their construction services to the UK, Scandinavia, central and southern Europe, the US and Canada and that between 2024 and 2025 there was a 33% increase in exports, compared to just an 8% increase in domestic...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role of Private Sector Construction Industry in Delivering High-Quality National Infrastructure: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: Sorry, I ask each witness when addressing the committee to tell us their company and give a snapshot of the business they do so people get a quick feel for the business and construction projects involved at home or, especially, abroad. We want to hear about the abroad - just a quick pen picture.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role of Private Sector Construction Industry in Delivering High-Quality National Infrastructure: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Sheridan said the modelling was not valid, or whatever word he used.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role of Private Sector Construction Industry in Delivering High-Quality National Infrastructure: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: No, but it is not accurate.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role of Private Sector Construction Industry in Delivering High-Quality National Infrastructure: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: Who is producing this? Which Government Department produces this?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role of Private Sector Construction Industry in Delivering High-Quality National Infrastructure: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: No, in Ireland.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role of Private Sector Construction Industry in Delivering High-Quality National Infrastructure: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Sheridan said the information was provided by the ESRI. Is it the ESRI that publishes these reports? I do not know what report he is talking about. Help us here.