Funding strain jeopardises major infrastructure projects

Six projects now would not proceed this year due to funding pressures, including the N25 Carrigtwohill to Midleton improvement scheme. Picture: Denis Minihane

Major infrastructure projects proposed in the landmark National Development Plan are facing a “car crash” unless reform is brought to public works contracts, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Transport committee chair Kieran O’Donnell said “the figures don’t add up” on public works contracts, and said he didn’t want to see the National Development Plan fail and projects left in a “straitjacket”.