Government Construction Projects & Capital Spend

The agency is a statutory body set up under the aegis of the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government (DECLG). The Agency was established to provide local authorities and approved housing bodies with high quality advice and support on the delivery of housing and housing services.The Agency focuses on housing management issues, delivery of technical and regeneration services (incl. management of the pyrite remediation scheme) and research and policy advice.

He graduated from University College Dublin in 1979 in Civil Engineering. He has a Master’s degree from Trinity College and is a Chartered Engineer. He has worked with Kildare, Offaly and South Dublin County Councils. His current role with the Department includes dealing with investment, legislative and policy matters in respect of roads

Gerard is a Deputy Director of the National Treasury Management Agency and Head of Finance & Operations for the National Development Finance Agency. He is with the NDFA since 2004. Prior to joining the NDFA, he was Head of Risk in NTMA with responsibility for Funding & Liquidity management and Benchmarking of the National Debt. Prior to joining the NTMA in 1991, he worked for six years in the Budget & Planning Division of the Department of Finance.

Gerard’s Primary degree is in Geography and Economics from University College Cork. He obtained a Masters in Economics in 1981 and is also a member of the Institute of Taxation since 1991.

He has practiced in this area for over 26 year and has aligned his extensive construction practise, which includes construction contract drafting and construction disputes, with a recognised expertise in all aspects of public procurement law/tendering. Kevin has considerable experience in leading the construction and procurement advice on large scale construction and infrastructure projects, managing issues from initial query to resolution including providing strategic advice on how to structure arrangements and producing draft documentation to reflect such arrangements, particularly with a view to avoiding or minimizing conflict during the construction phase and seeking to have robust and clear arrangements in place.

Kevin has written articles and lectures extensively on the areas of construction contracts and procurement. He has lectured on both subjects on the engineering degree course at University College Dublin and, since the course began, has lectured on the Diploma in Construction Law and Contract Administration course in Trinity College Dublin.

Kevin is a regular speaker at conferences on construction contracts, dispute resolution and procurement.

He joined the HSE in 1995 and acted as Project Manager on a number of large projects including Naas General Hospital Development, Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown and the Community Nursing Unit programme. In 2007 he became an Assistant National Director with responsibility for managing the HSE’s Capital Programme and in 2009 also assumed responsibility for the HSE’s Property Portfolio.

He is a visiting lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building. He previously held the positions of Head of Department of Construction Management & Technology and Head of the School of Construction in DIT in a career that spans over 30 years of experience in construction education and practice. He is a Past President of the International Construction Project Management Association (ICPMA). His primary area of expertise concerns the effective use of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and he represents DIT and Ireland on a number of EU funded research initiatives relating to education and training of PPP practitioners. He is a current member of the UNECE Group of Experts in PPP whose brief it is to establish the criteria for developing PPP in transition economies.

The Unit, based in Tullamore, is responsible for planning education accommodation provision and managing the capital funding allocated by the Government each year for upgrading, replacing and expanding school and third level college buildings and infrastructure. Major Projects section delivers school building projects for the primary and post-primary school sectors.

He is currently a key driver of the National Broadband Plan, responsible for the technical aspects of this key National infrastructure project. Throughout last year, he acted as a member of Government’s Mobile Phone and Broadband taskforce which identified measures to address poor mobile phone coverage and remove barriers to the rollout of broadband infrastructure. Prior to joining the Department in 2014, Patrick was a lead executive in Ericsson Ireland working both in Ireland and internationally, on multiple telecom and ICT projects.

Before that she worked in the renewable energy and security of supply areas. Prior to her assignment to energy Rebecca worked in the Communications area, which included assignment to Brussels for the Irish Presidency of the EU in 2004, and fisheries policy.