New laws to fast-track major projects as Government targets ‘serial objectors’

The Coalition announces sweeping changes to streamline planning, limit legal challenges and accelerate delivery of large-scale national infrastructure projects

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris at the launch the Accelerating Infrastructure - Report and Action Plan, at the Government Buildings in Dublin. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

The Government will introduce restrictions on judicial reviews and new laws to fast-track major projects as part of reforms to speed up infrastructure delivery.

Public expenditure minister Jack Chambers said the State faces an infrastructure deficit and that the Government has “become trapped by process at the cost of progress.”