Ireland 'may miss out on private sector infrastructure investment'

Ireland - north and south - is in danger of missing out on major investment in key infrastructural projects unless the authorities are able to provide a tangible flow of deals in the years to come, an expert of the public private financing of infrastructural projects has warned.

Roger Alexander, head of the European Project Finance at international accountancy firm Mazars said: "Today Dublin is hosting a major all-island conference on infrastructural investment which is being attended by many of the key stakeholders of Public Private Partnerships in Europe, but we are in danger of many of these investors looking elsewhere unless we can provide a greater level of certainty about a flow of projects."