Just went through it and this is what I find mentioning Waterford directly.
Urban Regeneration and Development Fund: €2 billion, under the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government will support the co-development of the NPF’s growth enablers for the five cities and other large urban centres. Examples of projects that have the potential to receive support under the Fund would include the development of the Cork Docklands (City Docks and Tivoli and associated mobility and bridge access), the Limerick 2030 initiative, the Waterford North Quays SDZ regeneration project, the plans for Galway City Centre regeneration, and the Portlaoise urban design and renewal initiative
€2 billion allocated for an Urban Regeneration and Development Fund – to promote co-ordinated investment in the renewal and redevelopment of our cities and towns. This fund will support the co-development of the NPF’s growth enablers for the five cities, examples could include Cork Docklands (City Docks and Tivoli and associated mobility and bridge access), Limerick 2030, Waterford North Quays Strategic Development Zone (SDZ), and Galway City Centre regeneration.
The following sections of the national road network will be progressed through pre-appraisal and early planning during 2018 to prioritise projects which are proceeding to construction in the National Development Plan.
• N24 Waterford to Cahir• N25 Waterford to Glenmore
The investment under the National Development Plan will allow An tarto continue to play its important role in employment creation in Gaeltacht areas over the period of the plan/
/In order to achieve this, the incremental increase in the annual capital allocation to €12 million will enable the creation of an additional 400 jobs annually, bringing to over 1,000 the number of jobs created annually in Gaeltacht areas across counties Donegal, Mayo, Galway, Cork, Kerry, Waterford and Meath. In addition, significant investment will be made in order to bring ar property and infrastructure portfolio to an appropriate standard to attract new enterprise
A number of sustainable transport projects will be delivered over the period to 2027 across the five cities Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford to provide additional sustainable travel options to complement increased capacity and faster higher quality public transport in the cities. These will include traffic management, bus priority and other smarter travel projects along with new urban cycling and walking routes to allow transport infrastructure to function more effectively and relieve congestion
Park-and-Ride Programme: strategic park and ride sites plus investment in parking facilities at rail, Luas and bus locations, for example, Swords, Finglas, Dunboyne, Liffey Valley, Naas Road, Carrickmines, Woodbrook and Greystones and with national development of BusConnects, for example, Galway, Cork, Limerick and Waterford
DA property solutions, strategic sites and grants in all regions will deliver new Foreign Direct Investment and high-quality jobs/
/This action will build on IDA’s current €150 million regional property investment programme that has delivered new advanced buildings in Athlone, Castlebar, Sligo, Galway, Limerick, Tralee and Waterford, among other locations.
€60 million EI Regional Enterprise Development Fund
Innovation and technology partnership collaborations approved include, InsurTech Network Centre in Carlow, AgriTech Centre of Excellence in Kerry plus, Irish Manufacturing Research in Westmeath and ThreeD (design develop disseminate) Waterford.
Regional Innovation – EI, IDA Ireland and SFI Technology and Research Centres
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: research across pharmaceutical manufacturing chain, continuous and powder processing, advanced rapid micro-analytical techniques, partners include UCC, University of Limerick (UL), IT Sligo, IT Tralee, Cork IT (CIT), Waterford IT and IT Tallaght.
Continued Exchequer support for smaller regional airports is planned under the Regional Airports Programme (Ireland West Airport Knock, Waterford Airport, Donegal Airport and Kerry Airport).
and the importance of continuing investment to further improve the quality of port facilities, particularly those in the South-East such as Rosslare and the Port of Waterford given their role in maintaining transportation linkages with crucial EU markets
Acute Hospital developments including:Waterford ward block•
Role of Regional Investment Plans
The NPF and the associated legislative framework will guide the Regional Assemblies’ delivery of statutory RSESs. These strategies will include new Metropolitan Area Strategic Plans for the cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford. This concept represents a major innovation in enabling the adoption of an integrated, consolidated and coherent approach to regional planning. Spatial planning in relation to the Greater Dublin Area (GDA) already provides an example of co-ordination of sectoral plans
n order to ensure the RSESs are practical and realistically aligned to the level of available investment resources, each Regional Assembly is establishing high-level steering groups comprising senior officials from local authorities, Government Departments/Agencies and commercial-State companies to oversee the preparation of the RSESs. The steering groups will also ensure that their plans are properly aligned with NPF National Strategic Outcomes and are, in aggregate, deliverable within the available public capital investment resources set out in chapter 3. It is envisaged that by end-2018 each RSES should be finalised containing agreed priority investment projects capable of being delivered within the capital allocation available to Departments and Agencies
In this way, the National Development Plan will support the achievement of more balanced development of:• Ireland’s three regions: the Northern and Western Region; the Southern Region; and the Eastern and Midland Region;• Ireland’s main cities, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford, whose success is central to the success of these regions
Waterford City and Metropolitan Area Waterford is the principal urban centre in Ireland’s
south-east and is unique in having a network of large and strong regional urban centres in close
proximity within each of the surrounding counties that both complement the role of Waterford and
perform strong regional and local economic and developmental roles for their own areas.
Given the unique urban composition of the south east and the objective to enable Waterford City
to become a regional city of scale, an agreed development strategy is required to build
Waterford’s population and employment base substantially while enabling surrounding urban
centres to perform complementary roles. From a national perspective, a stronger Waterford
City would lead the development of the wider south-east, which has experienced slower economic
recovery than the national average in recent years, together with high unemployment rates, lower
value job opportunities and less job creation.
The City is well-served by motorway and rail links to Dublin, but requires improved road links to
other major urban areas, particularly Cork and Limerick, and also within the region to towns that
are not served by motorway. Waterford and the wider south-east region is also served by a regional
airport and the Port of Waterford at Belview and Rosslare-Europort, which are geographically
close to EU trading partners and will be important in Ireland’s response to Brexit, and an Institute
of Technology, to form part of a Technological University.
The WIT must be pretty disappointed with the crumbs they are getting.
Read the whole thing here
http://www.gov.ie/en/pdf-viewer/?file=https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/govieassets/18/5569359-NDP%20strategy%202018-2027_WEB.pdf#page=35
