#Ireland2040 @campaignforleo arriving @itsligo pic.twitter.com/sd5MaHklyE
— Letterkenny Chamber (@lkchamber) February 16, 2018
This morning/afternoon.
Institute of Technology, Sligo, County Sligo.
Taoiseach Leo Vardkar arrives to announce details of the Project Ireland 2040 capital development plan.
More as we get it.
Q&A: What is ‘Project Ireland 2040’ and what will it do? (Fiach Kelly, Irish Times)
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I know it’s crucial to have a long term development strategy, but it’s a bit rich talking about the additional housing that will be required in 20 years when they have done next to nothing to address today’s housing shortage.
They don’t want to interfere in the market now, but plan to in the future?
On 8th of February they changed the planning regulations to allow the change of use of offices and shops to residential without planning permission (with certain caveats). That’s a fairly big interference into the market.
With certain caviars, more like
Bread and Circuses…..
Ireland where every project always costs more….
Gluten and animal cruelty free I hope.
…”every project always costs more”.
Evidence please – from the last 5-10 years.
Gway Cian will ya!
Why? Yes, there have been issues with cost overruns on public procurements in the past, but this is improving. Why the constant put-down of everything done in Ireland?
e.g. “Luas Cross City, at €368 million, it is on budget, even slightly under its original €370 million price tag ”
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/a-match-made-in-dublin-the-luas-lines-finally-get-it-together-1.3310999
You missed the bit where the author calls it “astonishing” and “rarely if ever seen”.
Which it is. Improvement maybe but I would wait for consistency before proclaiming my delight.
What’s rare is wonderful.
I’m sure the past is what Louis is basing his comment on. Yesterday is the past.
I hate to be cynical but you could stick 2140 on that. Having lived on this island for more than a week I can tell you how vague and non committal this waste of paper will be.
The only people benefiting from this are the printers of said document and the usual “researchers”.
What an odd waste of time and money.
As.Usual.
Next!!!!
Spot on.
Lofty goals with no follow through, as is tradition.
I heard that they are bringing back Dublin City WiFi and more security on the Luas red line.
No mention of reviving Rosslare Europort, This could be developed as a key freight route to the spartial gateway cities of Waterford, Kilkenny, Cork, Limerick, Galway & Sligo. The government seem oblivious in any planning to the new direct railway freight service to & from Europe/China that take 15 days (faster then shipping & cheaper then air) that currently ends in Barking, East London, This service is part of the Chinese/European effort to establishing a modern-day Silk Road route, This route also goes through 8 countries en route to & from China (Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium, France, UK). With a bit of foresight and planning this could be extended into Ireland via Pembroke/Rosslare. The railway infrastructure from the Irish end is already there in various states of opening, closure & decay all the way up to Sligo. the route offers massive potential as it opens gateway access to the south & west without funneling everything through Dublin.
There are some things that would put a downer on that though.
– rail links (routes) to rosslare port cannot take 20’ or 40’ or 40’ HC containers. Height wise. The route you mention would mean re opening the waterford route (as the dublin link couldn’t be used due to tunnels). But the waterford connection also has low bridges, and it would mean replacing the bridge (1km?) between wexford and waterford.
– South Wales (Newport?) to Waterford Port would be a more cost-effective Silk Road option.
– Would Rosslare have enough land available? There doesn’t seem to be too much room there at the moment.
and you also have the IR folks that forced CLdN out to Dublin. Rosslare will be nothing as long as IR have it.
– the Silk Road costs are approx 50% the costs of shipping by air for the client….and that’s to arrival port on mainland europe.
But the cost per kilo Airport to Airport China to Ireland is €5.90+ approx. unless shipping tons and tons. Even then it’s still €4 or so per kilo. Importers are tuned into the 45 day transit from china by sea and order in plenty of time usually. the cost by sea is one tenth or less of the silk road option.
You can get a 40’ Port-port china to ireland for $800 x $ 2600 depending on time of year. The Silk Road to Barking costs $8000+
It offers no bold vision or innovations at all. Steady as you go seems to be the thinking. Just the same things that we always done. It fails to recognise – or understand – that the world is changing rapidly.
Wake up Ireland from NZ.This looks like Agenda 21 UN communism eco style by stealth. Rise up and kick out anyone connected to ICLEI international committee on local environmental inititives. There is no democracy, councils all around the world including ours have been hyjacked. This means awful bike lanes-they want us out of our cars and into future stack and pack housing for a bright sustainable dystopia sold as a “free” electric utopia.