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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: When Mr. O'Neill talks about a resource issue, is he talking about An Bord Pleanála?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Am I correct in saying that Government is looking at that issue as we speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Our understanding is that it was. We will follow up on that. Okay, I understand that specific one. I ask Mr. Walsh to explain the alignment of stakeholders because I do not quite understand it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Mr. Walsh to give me an example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I would have thought alignment of stakeholders and then resourcing, planning and regulations are all related. There are aspects that feed into that. Again, TII projects are being delayed because bodies have terms of reference for their particular issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am not asking Mr. Walsh to comment. Regarding the reform of public works contracts, let me distil it down. Roadbridge had a very good reputation. It was one of the premier civil engineering contractors in Ireland and had gone international but has now collapsed. We have seen other collapses. With the current fixed-price contract tender process, how long will it be before we see others...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Let me put it another way. In the current model for the fixed-price contract where it is fixed for two years when they physically commence work, that contract may have been tendered for two years previously meaning that the pricing could have been done four years before turning a sod on the ground to commence the works. How sustainable is the current fixed-price model?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is TII putting inflation running at currently, where contracts are concerned? It must be seeing it with contracts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It has gone up by the bones of €1,050. Which is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: On what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: If we, therefore, take the contract at the moment-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: -----oil has gone up by 40%. That affects diesel. That is being used on road contracts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Since when?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about diesel?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: TII will have an idea of the way contracts have been priced, so if the materials have increased in price across the board in the order of 20% to 25%, are these contracts in a profit- or loss-making situation now, based on the way they were priced on day 1?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When companies price a contract, they are going to tell TII what their margin is. I have no doubt TII will-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: But TII would have an idea. It would have its own modelling where they give it a contract price. Would all of these fixed-price contracts have been awarded based purely on price, that is, on the lowest price?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that on the basis of lowest price?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are hearing anecdotally that many of these would make up the balance of the price on claims at the end. That is anecdotal; it is what we hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: If you have a fixed-price contract that starts today and it is a two-year fixed price then I can put in for inflation in two years' time. Say the contract is for three years, I can only put in for inflation from the start of the end of the three years. Am I correct?