Varadkar defends Project 2040 promotion

The Government has fleshed out the next steps for the Project Ireland 2040 Plan and defended its strategy for promoting it.

At the first of a series of events to promote the €116bn investment, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste Simon Coveney, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, and ministers Michael Creed and Mary Mitchell O’Connor told an audience at UCC that Project 2040 would transform the country, with Mr Donohoe outlining the next steps.

That will involve regional spatial and economic strategies, metropolitan area strategic plans and the launching of a National Regeneration and Development Agency, all backed by four new investment funds.