Aoife Foley: Ireland must build a national infrastructure commission

You cannot manage what you do not measure: We need a national body to measure our capabilities and manage progress — starting with an audit of promised but undelivered projects

Ireland is capable of delivering big projects such as Arklow Bank. But, despite having Europe’s best wind resource, it is our only 25MW wind farm. We must take control of how we plan and deliver infrastructure. File picture

For decades, Ireland’s infrastructure debate turned on one question: Where would the money come from?

Today, for the first time in a generation, that question has largely been answered.