Laing O'Rourke improves the time it takes to settle up - by just one day

By Jordan Marshall2019-04-30T05:00:00

Country’s biggest private contractor falling behind peers in getting bills paid quicker

The country’s biggest private contractor is barely making any progress in improving its average payment time just months after its chairman Ray O’Rourke promised to tackle the issue head on.

Figures the firm published yesterday, which it is required to do under government legislation, show the average time taken to pay its invoices between 1 October 2018 and 31 March 2019 was 52 days – just one day less than the previous six months.

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