1.3 | Project Ireland 2040

1.3 | Project Ireland 2040

Project Ireland 2040 was launched in February 2018 with the publication of the National Planning Framework (NPF) and the National Development Plan 2018-2027 (NDP). A revised National Development Plan 2021-2030 was published in October 2021.

Project Ireland 2040 is underpinned by a set of shared objectives, the National Strategic Outcomes (NSO), for the decades ahead which will ensure Ireland develops sustainably and that the benefits from that development are shared by every community in the country.

To support the continued realisation of the National Planning Framework, the revised NDP has set out a major public capital investment programme of €165bn between 2021 and 2030. In the first five years of the plan, over €13bn will be invested in transport which will

National Investment Framework for Transport in Ireland | Overview

see maintenance requirements for existing infrastructure largely met and, over the lifetime of the plan, a host of significant and transformative new infrastructure and services delivered.

NIFTI translates the ten NSOs to a transportspecific context, developing the Investment Priorities that will ensure that the transport sector plays its part in delivering the NPF.

Within the NDP, Departmental funding envelopes are set out for a five-year period to 2025, and this is extended on a rolling basis as part of the annual Estimates process.

Future transport investment projects and programmes as identified in investment strategies—whether they are developed by the NTA in the case of public transport, TII in the case of the National Roads network, or Local Authorities in the case of regional and local roads and other projects of a local nature—will have to demonstrate their fit with NIFTI and, by extension, with the NPF and NSOs.