The Government will today announce a list of nine projects to be fast-tracked under new legislation that prioritises critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Among the schemes that will be listed are Dublin’s MetroLink, the Cork Area Commuter Rail Programme and the Galway ring road.<\/p>\n
The new legislation, proposed by Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers, was enacted last month.<\/p>\n
It mandates public bodies involved in authorising projects to fast-track specific schemes, which have been designated as critical by the Government.<\/p>\n
The Critical Infrastructure Act covers organisations such as the planning body An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority.<\/p>\n
Every public body involved in the approval process for designated critical infrastructure will be required to reduce timelines, progress processes in parallel and cooperate with each other.<\/p>\n
The legislation also disapplies the climate legislation to critical infrastructure projects – a move that has been criticised by environmental groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government will today announce a list of nine projects to be fast-tracked under new legislation that prioritises…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-565561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}