Strategic Infrastructure Act in tatters?

A big decision from An Bord Plenala as reported in Irish Times today http://tinyurl.com/39y2kmb. The Board have refused permission for a 50 acre expansion of Dublin Port and to add insult to injury have a look at the appendix to the decision! They're awarded costs of approx. €100k to themselves (on top of the €100k planning fee) and awared €9K each to the opposing groups. This is of course on top of the 100s of thousands the applicant will have spent on design and consultancy fees. The 2006 Strategic Infrastructure Act was designed to streamline and fastrack projects of national importance. So on a day when enquiries into the irish banking crisis round on the house of cards created around development speculation, a real project facilitating trade, construction jobs and investment is given the KO on the basis that the applicant did not “adequately establish that the proposal would not adversely affect both the integrity of this SPA and the natural heritage of Dublin Bay”. The decision does not even conclude that there would be a adverse impact. Just imagine this happening in Europort,NL? So how will we get Strategic Infrastructure for future Energy, Transport, communications,renewable power (something on the scale of the Spirit of Ireland project), that need to be the backbone of economic recovery? It seems that the Strategic Infrastructure Act isn't part of the equation.