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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: June of what year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: But TII had a preferred tenderer selected in the previous December.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: So TII could bring it back six months, to perhaps June of 2021 prices?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are talking about December 2020 if we go to June-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: To June 2021.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Had any physical work started on the N5 contract? Mr. Walsh was talking about December, so let us bring it up to December 2021, so one is then looking at two years from that date, I presume. This then brings one up to December 2024. Mr. Walsh is talking about where the contractor put the price in in December 2020, which ends up as four years fixed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay, enough said. The contractor was Roadbridge.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Roadbridge was the principal contractor on the N5 as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are there any other joint contracts with other contractors, apart from those two?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Do you wish to ask anything else, Deputy Lowry?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The committee will follow up on that. We will probably look to bring before the committee the Department of Transport and probably the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the structure of contracts. TII, which is the body responsible for infrastructure provision in Ireland, is before us as a public committee of national representatives. As Deputy Lowry said, this sets...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is a key partner as well, though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will take up the matter relatively soon after Easter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Deputy O'Rourke has approximately seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Senator Buttimer can come in in a minute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We now move to Senator Buttimer, who has approximately seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Roadbridge is a big company in Limerick city. Its collapse brought shudders of shock in the mid-west region affecting 630 staff and several projects. We will do a body of work on the reform of public contracts. There are three items. As far as I am aware, the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, is currently looking at resource planning and the regulatory process. Am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: However, TII has expressed a view-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it more a resourcing process issue?