Invest in West to balance Dublin, John Moran tells Ireland's Business Strategy Conference

Former department of finance secretary general John Moran has questioned the Government’s capital spending plans and suggested more should be done to counter-balance Dublin’s position as the country’s main economic driver.

Mr Moran questioned why his former colleagues in the department and their political supremos are not doing more to prioritise longer term investment projects at a time when domestic economic stimulus through increased current spending is not needed.

Speaking at Ireland’s Business Strategy Conference 2016 at Thomond Park, the former finance chief also called on the Government to consider developing an Atlantic Economic Corridor stretching from Cork to Galway, via Limerick, as the country’s second economic hub.