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Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: I welcome my parents who have popped in. It is timely. They were due a visit and were passing by. It is the first time I have brought my parents to work.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank the Minister for joining us. Obviously, the reason he is here is that infrastructure is the key national focus. We can talk about housing and, fundamentally, housing is where we want to get to, but ultimately we need the underlying infrastructure behind that. That is why this new committee has been set up. Obviously, that is why the Minister joined us previously, and why he is...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: What is the primary skill set of that team?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: Feargal O'Rourke.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: How would they line up-----

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: If the Minister could, that would be great. How will they be lining up directly with local authorities? Ultimately, local authorities will be where a lot of this work gets done and where the funding is put down to.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: Is he having regular meetings with the CEOs of the councils?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: It is more about reforms than implementation as yet.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: Ultimately, that is where we are hoping to put the reforms in place in the coming months. We will be putting them in place based on that feedback.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: No, I am talking about the wider spectrum. That sort of information the Minister has accumulated is where he will be focusing in across the board, not only in local authorities. The Minister will be putting those reforms in place. That is the information that will be coming out in the coming months.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: What are the accelerating infrastructure actions? What exactly will they be-----

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: Yes, but even on a high level.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: Yes.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: I agree.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: Lastly, there is a lot about physical infrastructure in the delivery of housing. Something that is often missed, and a lot of us have seen at local authority level, is that we can build houses but we do not necessarily build communities in the way we should. How do we ensure we get the funding behind these 300,000 houses in order that we get the things that people need, such as having...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: Like my own.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: We have limited time too. I thank the Minister.

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: It was not solely my office that was inundated. I am sure the Minister of State's own office and, indeed, all constituency offices across the country were inundated with similar issues. Having listened to other Deputies on this topic, I am left wondering how it is such a big problem every year. It seems to catch us almost by surprise. Here we are, school buses are needed and people...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank the witnesses for coming in. We have got used to experts and people who really know their areas coming in such as previous Central Bank colleagues as well as the ESRI and IFAC. There are a lot of the same trends and thoughts. That will help us tomorrow as we have discussions with the Ministers, Deputies Chambers and Donohoe. We want to get as much information as possible. I will...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Joe Neville: Do we know what sectors it is in? Do the witnesses have a feel for that?