‘Flawed decentralisation policy could be used to fund road infrastructure’

DUBLIN Chamber of Commerce has criticised the Government’s decentralisation policy as flawed and a waste of money that could be put to better use.

In its pre-Budget submission it has asked the Government to reconsider its goal of decentralisation and plough the €1 billion capital spending programme by the Office of Public Works into the primary roads programme and strategic non-national roads instead.

Increased spending on the infrastructure deficit would do more for the economy at this point than any other form of investment, it said.