Cork Chamber Urges Timely Progress
27th November 2015
Cork Chamber today broadly welcomed the Government’s Capital Plan 2016 - 2021 investment announcements for Cork and Kerry.
The launch which took place in UCC’s Beaufort Building in Ringaskiddy saw the announcement of a wide range of projects for roads, floodworks, healthcare, housing and policing. Cork Chamber CEO, Conor Healy, in welcoming the announcements, added ‘today’s announcements are hugely positive for Cork and the entire South West region and I am delighted to see the investment in such far reaching projects as the Cork City Events Centre, the investment in IMERC projects and the redevelopment of Pairc Uí Chaoimh. The inclusion of such regionally critical infrastructure projects as the upgrade to the Dunkettle Interchange, the N28, the N22 and the Mallow Relief Road are again enormously positive for economic development across the entire region. Throughout the years, Cork Chamber has advocated determinedly for the investment in road infrastructure and the Dunkettle Interchange has been continuously highlighted as a central and enabling piece of key infrastructure and the primary link to all national and secondary routes in Cork and so we urge that this project be undertaken with haste. Cork Chamber now calls for a clear commitment to the timeline and ultimate delivery schedule for these strategic road infrastructure projects’.
Mr. Healy added, ‘Today’s Capital Plan investment announcements will support and enable balanced economic growth and prosperity across the region and are vital for enabling the continued development of the region as an effective and attractive counterbalance to the Eastern region’.
In conclusion, Mr. Healy stated ‘The omission of the M20 Cork to Limerick motorway is notable however and Cork Chamber will continue to pursue Government commitment for the progression of this critically important infrastructure project. It is without doubt that Cork as a region has vast potential and it is thereby essential that all actions as outlined within todays Capital Plan announcements are put into motion in a timely fashion taking cognisance of the regions ability to further catalyse and positively affect upon Irelands economic landscape both regionally and nationally’.
Cork Chamber is the leading business organisation in Cork supporting and representing the interests of approximately 1,000 businesses employing over 100,000 people in the region.
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