‘Focus on road projects that can support recovery’

The Government will focus major road spending on projects which can support economic recovery, the transport minister has said.

Paschal Donohoe said he was assessing a range of competing schemes in Cork alone, including the stalled €800m Cork to Limerick motorway, the N28 Cork to Ringaskiddy road upgrade, and upgrading the Dunkettle interchange.

He said he would only sign off on public-private partnership road projects if he was “absolutely confident” that the exchequer had all the funding required to fully complete a scheme.