An Irish unit of US stock market-listed group Argan has signed multi-million-euro engineering and construction services contracts with ESB to build three gas-fired power plants in Dublin as part of measures to underpin the country’s stretched generation capacity.
The Government is set to miss its housing targets in 2023 and 2024, according to consulting firm EY.
Since 2011, the State’s so-called ‘bad bank’ of Nama has sold development land with the potential to build over 86,000 homes. However, fewer than 11,000 homes have actually been built on that land.