Road and rail works must be speeded up, says Tánaiste

NEW ways must be found of removing delays and speeding up badly-needed infrastructural projects, such as major road and rail works, Tánaiste and Enterprise Minister Mary Harney urged yesterday.

She also called for more flexibility from the EU to allow the Government borrow for capital works that would help underpin future economic growth and would be provided for in Critical Infrastructure Bills.

Ms Harney conceded that the €6 billion roads’ development programme under the National Development Plan to 2006 would prove an “awful lot less” than was originally planned.