Soaring cost of steel threatens future of roads projects

Transport Infrastructure Ireland CEO Peter Walsh said: “No work can happen on [the Galway ring road] at the moment.” Artist Impression

It would be “optimistic” to suggest that the Galway City Ring Road could be built within five years, even if all of the judicial reviews lodged against it were to fail, an Oireachtas Committee has heard.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland CEO Peter Walsh said reforms are urgently needed to the contracts used for major road projects as well as more resources for the planning and regulatory processes to face the “significant and systemic threats” such projects are facing.