Politics
Cost of transport infrastructure plan pushes past €100bn
Eamon Ryan said that inflation has added €30 billion to planned road and rail developments
The cost of delivering Ireland’s transport infrastructure in the coming years has increased from €70 billion to at least €100 billion due to inflation, Eamon Ryan has said.
The Minister for Transport and Environment previously brought a memo to cabinet identifying a €14 billion hole in the transport capital budget under the National Development Plan (NDP) out to 2030.
However, he confirmed to the Business Post that the total inflation cost in planned transport projects ...