Intel sought Ibec briefing on planning delays and legal challenges

The US tech behemoth met with employers’ group Ibec last week to outline its concerns about this country’s planning system

Pat Gelsinger, chief executive, Intel, and Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the construction site of Intel’s latest manufacturing expansion in Leixlip, Co Kildare: the multinational company is understood to have met with Ibec, the employers’ group, last week to outline a number of key concerns it has about the Irish planning system. Picture: Marc O’Sullivan

Intel, the US microchip giant, is becoming increasingly concerned about the delays in the Irish planning system and the rising number of judicial review cases being taken against planning decisions, the Business Post can reveal.

The multinational company is understood to have met with Ibec, the employers’ group, last week to outline a number of key concerns it has about the Irish planning system, particularly around the increasing number of legal challenges being taken by ...