The Irish government has decided that it cannot afford to pay for:
- a road in the United Kingdom
- some railway lines in Dublin, Meath and the west
- a prison in the countryside.
But what of the Ulster Canal? It is not explicitly mentioned in the Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-16: Medium Term Exchequer Framework document published on 10 November 2011. It is not clear that the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht will have enough money to pay for it: here is my assessment. In the absence of explicit information from the department, I would welcome information from other sources.
Irish waterways history 