Daniel McConnell

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Peter, for someone who we don't maybe know particularly well, geez, that was good value for money, I thought.

I thought he gave, like you say, straight answers to straight questions.

But someone I think we probably will hear quite a bit more of.

canary in the gold mine but in a positive sense of are people like him starting to see benefits and if they are well in five years time we'll be in a much better position now you did talk to him in the interview about their potential pitching as part of a consortium for the new for the metro and obviously we know metro is going to be a whopper project yeah like big big money like what are what like what are the sort of things they would be doing because i think he kind of half alluded to it but maybe not fully like i mean what are the sort of things that we can expect them to be involved with

Are they the sort of ones who do the heavy lifting, boring, or are they the ones who might be interested or involved in, say, the station building?

That was, sorry, absolutely.

That was the most important.

And that's just something that echoes something that Sean Sweeney, the now, or the now former head of the Metro project said, like this project is on a scale that we have never seen before in this country.

You have to put it on a different footing.

It has to be, it is special, has to be treated as special.

and you have to clear everybody out of the way to make it happen so like local objections good luck you know what i mean county council's objections about whatever good luck it just needs that razor-like focus to get it done but it's clear that the system here needs that kind of wake-up call because i think one of the great complaints about say doing something a project like the poor tongues that we didn't continue to use those firms we stopped building so we let all that expertise yeah and infrastructure build you know fade away

to then have to build it back up again, rather than just saying, well, hang on, if we have that expertise here, what's next?

What else can we build?

What else, like the drainage scheme for Dublin, you know, Lewis extensions, whatever it is, like keep them here, keep that kind of infrastructure, keep that train essentially moving, because it's not like we need less of it, we need more of it.

That's what I was very interested in.

I thought it interesting also that he name-checked Ishgairn several times.

So they're obviously a big client, and obviously we know that water and water infrastructure... He made reference to that, I think, in England, that projects have been stopped because they don't have access to sufficient water.

And that vista has been raised here.

And we know that the water system here...