Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 April 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Proposed MetroLink: Discussion
1:30 pm
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I was going to ask whether that was it. That is the response to the questions. In fairness to the members, significant issues were raised by many people that I did not hear answered. Deputy Ellis spoke about the engineering costs involved in locating to a greenfield site. There is a cost-benefit analysis, and after public consultation there will be a preliminary costing of the project, after which there will be a further detailed costing and then it will go before the Government based on the totality of all the costs. What Deputy Ellis was asking, and I am sure it was an implied question from other people, is how the NTA and TII can assure the public that other alternatives are being examined, greenfield or otherwise. Is that the Deputy's point?
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