Calls to invest outside capital to develop new tier of cities

CALLS for an economic ‘counterbalance’ to Dublin’s bloated overweighting, and for infrastructure investment outside the capital to develop a new tier of cities, have come fast and furious since a strong speech by former Department of Finance head John Moran. 

Addressing chartered surveyors, he had called for development along the western corridor, with a high-speed rail link to Limerick and linking into Cork.

The SCSI surveyors conference was held, quite coincidentally, on March 31, the date on which the extended deadline for submissions closed on the Government’s vital National Planning Framework/Ireland 2040 plan.