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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: Is it directly with the OGP?

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: CIF has nothing back in relation to-----

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 imagine so.

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 Mr. Parlon is saying is that very few contractors are going to look at any of these contracts into the future until this is fixed.

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: Whatever about the dysfunctionality regarding who is already in play, we are talking about nothing happening until this is resolved. Can the witnesses give a breakdown and elaborate on the best-case scenario in what they are looking at? There is the NEC and FIDIC. Which is their preference? Can they give any specifics regarding what they think would work, percentage-wise and so forth, and...

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.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Haulage Industry (26 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his engagements with truckers in relation to the rising cost of fuel which is pushing businesses to the brink; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19652/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Haulage Industry (26 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I want to ask about the Minister of State's engagement with the hauliers. The rising cost of fuel is impacting hugely on all of us but we are talking about businesses that are on the brink. I would like to have a statement in regard to what has been done for them but, beyond that, what are the plans to ensure we keep an absolutely necessary cohort in the economy up and running?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Haulage Industry (26 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all accept there are factors beyond the control of the Government. We came out of Covid and we had the issues of Brexit, which impacted on the supply chain and are impacting us all greatly, and this was then followed by a huge global crisis, in particular a European crisis, with the war in Ukraine. With regard to those factors the Government has control over, are we looking at an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Haulage Industry (26 Apr 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Minister of State said it herself. It is about ensuring we can move the essential goods we require because we need to keep the show on the road. I will go back to the point that it is the future plans. Are we looking at extending the €100 payment and what other factors are we looking at? Are we going to properly look at the diesel rebate scheme and update it? On the wider...