This facilitated improvements in the physical infrastructure to be undertaken in tandem with economic growth. In Ireland, infrastructural developments have been unable to match the intensity of economic growth which has occurred over a relatively short period of time, so that bottlenecks have emerged.
In an effort to reduce the infrastructural deficit, the Government has initiated a programme of significantly increased expenditure as part of the National Development Plan. However, since the construction sector is already operating at full capacity, it will be some time before the benefits of this are visible.