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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: 7. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the housing activation office and its work and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53635/25]
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: We have received apologies from Deputy Conor Sheehan. At the outset, I remind members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex to participate in public meetings. Members are also reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: It is at the suggestion of the CIF. It is up to us to approve them. We are taking its suggestion of Walls Construction and the Murphy Group. We saw the Murphy Group in Ringsend the other day.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: Some of its signs were visible. The CIF also suggested "John Flanagan", although I am not sure John Flanagan which. It could be John Flanagan in the midlands.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: We are taking advice from the CIF. We will draw up a list. We are asking the CIF for key players.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: What was the name of the first organisation?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: What about Ballymore Group?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: We will come up back with that information for the next meeting. Those are three big players.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: We should bring in people who construct houses and apartments.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: It is. Rather than mixing those companies up with others who do roads------
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: -----we will keep them separate. That is good. That is the general position of where we are at this stage. Before we go on to the next item of business, which is bringing in the three groups, we will suspend for a few moments while the guests take their seats.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: The purpose of the meeting today is to discuss the role of engineering in delivering high-quality infrastructure, including those projects set out in the national development plan. I will ask people to put their hands up so that those watching on screens know who is who. I am pleased to welcome Engineers Ireland, from which we have Mr. John Jordan and Mr. Damien Owens. From the Irish...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: For the benefit of people watching, we have presentations by way of slides on our screens and the first witnesses are just logging in to the Oireachtas system so they can make their presentation. We will give it a moment. I will suspend the meeting for a minute while we get the IT bits sorted.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: We are now back in public session and will have the first presentation from Mr. Sean Finlay, president of the Irish Academy of Engineering.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: I thank the witnesses for that presentation, which was clear and to the point. I will now ask the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland to deliver its presentation.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Murnane. We will move on to Mr. John Jordan of Engineers Ireland.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Jordan. Before we go to members of the committee, I have one question. It is probably for the second group who spoke. When a project starts construction, why does the public always hear how there are so many changes needed in the design and layout during the course of the project and how there are so many changes made to big projects that were not foreseeable at the beginning?...
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: The Role of Engineering in Delivering High-Quality Infrastructure: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Seán Fleming: One thing I heard there is that we need talk to the architects at this committee on another day.