Engineers call for single body to develop infrastructure

The representative body for Ireland’s engineers has called for the establishment of a single unit tasked with the development of the nation’s infrastructure which, it says, will expedite the building of projects such as the Metro North and M20 Cork-Limerick motorway.

Engineers Ireland said current decision-making on significant capital expenditure is spread across government departments with little central oversight.

The body said the rollout of broadband should be seen as being as important as the electrification of rural Ireland.