Ibec: Strong recovery skewed toward Dublin

Just weeks before the budget, business group Ibec yesterday stepped up its campaign to persuade the Government that spending big on infrastructure will help rebalance the skewed over-development of Dublin that it says is disadvantaging other regions.

Gerry Collins, Ibec’s new president, told both Finance Minister Michael Noonan and Taoiseach Enda Kenny that increased spending on upgrading transport links from Dublin to Waterford, Cork, Limerick, and Galway, as well as spending on social housing, healthcare, and education, would pay dividends.