Infrastructure

Slow delivery of NDP ‘real problem’ for competitiveness

Frances Ruane, chair of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council Ireland, warned the country was ‘nowhere near’ delivering its infrastructure ambitions on time

Frances Ruane is chair of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council Ireland

The slow delivery of the government’s National Development Plan (NDP) is a “real problem” for the Irish economy, the chair of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council has said.

Speaking at the National Infrastructure Summit in Dublin on Thursday, Frances Ruane took aim at the slow delivery of infrastructure projects across water, energy, transport and housing.

She warned the country’s economic competitiveness would suffer if the bottlenecks were not fixed.

“To be globally competitive, your ...