Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

On the mix of projects, transport is one of the three main areas where we will fail to meet our emissions targets. This will cost us. It should be remembered that the Luas project fell of the tracks, as it were, about 15 years ago and other rail projects were completed instead. The project was originally announced in 1996 so it is a long time coming. The metro is the only other big project. A railway order was in place until 2015 for the DART underground and significant costs were incurred bringing the project to the point at which it was ready to commence. We are informed that some of these costs will not have to be incurred again. Is any work being done on the DART underground project? We are told some redesign work is being done. Who carries the cost of that? Is it TII, Irish Rail or another body? I do not see that cost presented here.