How Ireland is teetering on the brink with power, water and housing all near breaking point

At the first meeting of the reconstituted Project 2040 delivery board just over a week ago, Paschal Donohoe made clear the need for an urgent speeding up the delivery of critical infrastructure in the €165 billion National Development Plan.

Soon after becoming public expenditure minister, Donohoe had axed the previous unwieldy 18-member board, made up primarily of civil servants.

Now he was sitting in front of the slimmed down board of eight, now made up ...