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- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: Thank you, Mr. Moloney. I will call on speakers as they indicate but I will first ask a few direct questions myself. Mr. Moloney might not have the answers here today but he can forward them to us in writing. He mentioned it is a review that is taking place. Will it be an update or just a review of where we are at? Are new items going into it? Is it a review or an update?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: Mr. Moloney mentioned the Cabinet committee on infrastructure. If he has the list of which Departments are there, he might tell us, or if not, he can send that on to us.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: Okay. There is a new advisory group for projects over €200 million. How many of those are in the existing national development plan? How many projects in that category, over €200 million, are in the current plan?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: How many could it be?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: We will ask you to send on the list of the 60-----
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: Yes, because this committee and the public want to talk about specifics as well as all the other things about delivery and everything else. People will understand what we are talking about on this committee if they see the list of projects that are in the system. That might come along to us as well. The Department might also identify the ten largest of those 65 in the current plan that...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: I think Mr. Moloney is getting a feel for what we are looking for.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: As regards delivery, he will probably be aware of some of the other groups we are bringing in across the board to see where the timescales for some of the projects may be cut short in some of the areas. I am not talking about cutting corners, but sometimes things can be done in a different timescale than is happening at the moment. That is the gist of where we will be at - getting delivery....
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: That is that Cabinet group.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: Is health on that group?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: As regards capital investment and the national development plan, how significant is the health capital expenditure? The Department might give us a feel on that.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: The maternity hospital.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: This plan will take us out to 2035. Is that the approximate timescale?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: Out of the projects going into that plan, the Department might not know how many are expected, but as we come to July, I am sure it will. How many of those are expected to be completed within the ten-year timescale? Of those the Department does not expect to be completed, what stage are they at? Is it another year or another ten years? Some of them might take a long time. This is so the...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: How can the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform make an allocation to any Department if it does not have a list of the projects the Departments are talking about?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: Surely the Departments have prioritised lists? The Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform cannot hand out €1 billion to a Department and ask it to decide what it wants to do with it. Surely that is part of this process.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: When Mr. Moloney puts a price tag on a project today, is he giving us a price tag for the project to be completed this year or will it be a realistic assessment of inflation if it is a ten-year project and what is it expected to cost at the end? There is no point in starting with a figure based on 2025 prices when we know before we begin it will run until 2035. I suggest a plan that has an...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: Are there any final questions-----
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: There being no further questions I thank Mr. Moloney and all of his colleagues from the Department. No doubt we will be meeting again. It is important we had an opening discussion. A minor point was touched on by one member. The witnesses said they are commencing consultation in June. In Ireland, consultation goes on forever. How can a consultation be launched in June and have a report...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)
Seán Fleming: Is there a list of the usual people we talk to? Where does the public come into that?