Category: News
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Dissertation interview with John Farage O’Brien
Dissertation interview by Kate Hogan Final Year Quantity Surveying student in Bolton Street on Construction Adjudications in Ireland March 2024.
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Public Works Contracts Must Evolve
Irish Public Works Contracts Must Evolve Resolving a disputed public works final account, with the assistance of a neutral third party, is as much a part of the construction process today as the physical setting out of the works. However, this is simply not the way it ought to be — and it’s high time…
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Covid-19: Ex Gratia Payments and Public Works Contracts
You may recall my comments in May last year when the OGP first published guidance in relation to Employers making ex gratia payments to Contractors for costs associated with the stoppage of works and closure of sites. I both started and finished with the line: Private contractors on public works contracts do not get gifts or favours from the government.…
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Covid-19: Public Works Contracts and ‘Ex Gratia’ Payments
PRIVATE CONTRACTORS on public works contracts do not get gifts or favours from the government. For this reason, the publishing by the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) of a draft letter of agreement dealing with ‘ex gratia’ payments from Employers to Contractors can only be cautiously welcomed. For reasons that I am sure you are…
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Covid-19: Key Issues for Contractors under Public Works Contracts
NO ONE KNOWS WHAT the full impact of COVID-19 will be on the economy or wider society in Ireland. However, what we do know is that its impacts will be wide-ranging for every industry, including construction. As yet, there has been no direct instruction from government that construction sites be closed. The position, on the basis…
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Succeeding in complicated construction disputes
John FFF O’Brien, principal consultant at John Farage O’Brien, tells John Murphy how he generally succeeds for his claimant clients in more complicated construction disputes taken to mediation and conciliation — where the parties remain in control.
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Top Public Sector Award six years running
Greystones businessman John O’Brien’s company has won the highest award from Public Sector magazine for 2024, and for every year since 2017. O’Brien’s company, John Farage O’Brien Ltd, which operates from offices on Delgany’s Priory Road, has just been presented with the 2024 Legal Dispute Resolution Award by Public Sector magazine in its annual Excellence in Business…