National Development Plan

National Development Plan
Plean Forbartha Náisiúnta
Type of project	Development planning
Country	Republic of Ireland
Launched	1 January 1988
Closed	31 December 2011
Status	Ended
Website	www.ndp.ie

National Development Plan (NDP, Irish: Plean Forbartha Náisiúnta) is the title given by the Irish Government to a scheme of organised large-scale expenditure on (mainly) national infrastructure. The first five-year plan ran from 1988 to 1993, the second was a six-year plan from 1994 to 1999 and the third ran as a seven-year plan from 2000 to 2006. A fourth National Development Plan ran from 2007 to 2011 (spending €70 million a day every day during this period). The main elements of the third plan were the development of a national motorway network between the major cities in Ireland. The upgrading of the rail network was a secondary scheme.

The ESRI conducted a review of the latest NDP in 2023.