Cork-Limerick motorway plan ‘too expensive’ says Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe

Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe has defended the shelving of the proposed M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick, insisting the proposed project was too expensive.

In an interview with the Irish Examiner, Mr Donohoe said he took the decision to park the motorway plan in preference of smaller “targeted” projects.

“This is a €1bn project. If you look at the sum total of all the projects I have announced that were targeted, the sum total of all of them is less than the total cost of that single road,” he said.