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The €9.5bn metro is a key project under the National Development Plan. Internal project emails show that the recent discovery of PFAS-contaminated soil at Dublin Airport is proving problematic in getting the project through the planning system.

If an organisation can’t do its core job, problems will show up one way or another. Either it’ll make a poor quality product for a fair price, as is happening with Boeing. Or it’ll make a good quality product at massive cost, as happened with the National Children’s Hospital. 

Despite the uncertainty surrounding the future of the state’s finances, tendering to build and run the capital’s first underground rail system is ramping up.