Mr. Hugh Creegan:

The Deputy referred to the four projects. Regarding the new metro north project, there is a design team in place and it has started the design work on redesigning that project and reducing its cost. That is under way. On the DART underground, the decision made last year was that the project had to be redesigned with a lower cost solution brought forward. We and Irish Rail have started working jointly on that. The third is the DART to Balbriggan project mentioned a moment ago. We have not started work on that yet. Our funding profile means that design work on it will start in about a year. The fourth project is the national train control centre. Work is reasonably well advanced on that and we expect to go to tender for procurement of a new system and building for the control centre during 2017.