The 180-page National Development Plan (NDP) published in 2021, complete with a list of hundreds of capital projects intended for this decade, was “too long”, according to Taoiseach Micheál Martin.  “It was never my intention to publish a long list of projects,” added Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers later on Tuesday, at the close of a two-hour marathon of ministerial press conferences. There was clearly a Fianna Fáil drive to turn the State’s five-year investment planning process on its head. With the two main Government parties now long familiar with each other and backed by independents largely drawn from…

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