A concerted effort is under way to position Ireland as a centre for international dispute resolution.
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.
Fuel cost increases are having a “crippling” effect on some freight trade companies, with emergency tax measures needed to ensure “certainty of service”, the Government has been told.
