The report on accelerating the provision of key infrastructure offers a clear-sighted analysis of the problems and proposes 30 actions to combat them. These fall into three key areas – changing legal processes, reforming regulation and improving delivery and coordination. None of these will be easy, even if some – such as ensuring departments, State agencies and local authorities work efficiently together – would appear to be just common sense. Delivery in all these areas has become extraordinarily slow, mired in regulatory and legal processes and overseen by a nervous and inefficient administrative machine. Legal challenges inevitably await in some areas and push-back by State agencies and lobby groups in others.

Source: The Irish Times December 04, 2025 05:39 UTC