Ms Anne Graham:

I will respond first to the point made by Deputy Eamon Ryan about the strategy and changing the metro line to UCD and connecting it with Sandyford. As the Deputy will know, we do need to provide the infrastructure and do it on the basis of our existing transport strategy, which is a statutory plan. Any changes to any alignment would require a change to our statutory document plus there is a time period involved in delivering a change to the transport strategy. We do and we are required, and of course our strategy has to be adaptable to changing circumstances, but there is an allowance in our legislation to review our transport strategy every six years. We will be proposing to do that and to start that work towards the end of next year. We believe it is at that time that any changes or potential changes to alignment would be considered. It is then that one would consider the proposal to go to UCD instead of upgrading the green line to metro level service. If we make changes to our plans now, it means that our transport strategy would have to change. There is a two to three-year period involved in developing a transport strategy, getting it statutorily approved and then delaying the process for the whole MetroLink. We do not think that is something we should bring forward at this stage.