benefit.

Mr Ross said that the Cabinet met in Sligo to emphasise that.

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He also said that an €800 million bus corridors project, which is to be rolled out in Dublin in the coming years, will also be spread to Cork and to Galway. The project will also include cycle-lanes.

There will be a €500m innovation fund for start-up companies focused on science and energy.

The plan also looks at areas such as defence and the Government is going to purchase two new maritime aircraft to patrol Ireland’s waters after Brexit.

A new agency will seek to find ways of making the best use of land already in State ownership.

The national regeneration and development agency will workclosely with the local government sector, central Government, a range of existing agencies and public bodies and the semi-state sector on this.

This could focus initially on lands around the docks in both Galway and Waterford.

There will also be €1 billion allocated for flood prevention works across the country.

An extra €100 million will be provided to develop greenway routes to promote tourism in rural parts of the country.

Additional reporting by Conor McMorrow and George Lee