Challenge to Cork port plan dropped
The decision, taken at a meeting of its board on Monday, followed the intervention of Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe. Meanwhile, he made it known, in a letter to the board, that the Government was not impressed by the prospect of one state-owned port using taxpayer’s money to mount a potentially expensive legal challenge against an independent state body’s decision in relation to another state-owned port.
The Port of Waterford declined to comment yesterday. However, the Port of Cork’s deputy chief executive Denis Healy, welcomed the move and said it will enable the company to deliver the project within the original timeframe. It is hoped that work could start by the middle of next year.
