Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Foreign Direct Investment and Jobs Growth: Discussion

5:00 pm

Mr. Martin Shanahan:

Yes, I think there is. It is important to point out that the proposed Apple data centre in Athenry is an outlier in terms of the experience of the planning process. We have had any number of these types of infrastructural investment proceed without a hitch. The majority go through An Bord Pleanála and are not appealed to the courts and so on. From our perspective, we see the potential for further data centre investment. I refer again to anything that provides certainty to investors around the timelines. The time is pretty clear and it is up to An Bord Pleanála where the amount of time allowed is designated. After that the issue arises.

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