Ms Anne Graham:

Significant modelling would have been done for the development of the transport strategy. We would have looked at what mode should serve that quadrant of the city, particularly along the Stillorgan corridor, which serves UCD. It was designed and considered on the basis that the green Luas line would be upgraded to metro and that there would be an expanded and improved DART service on the DART corridor as well. The Stillorgan corridor, which serves UCD at the moment, is in the middle of that. The development of the strategy showed that if both were put in place, the bus system would be able to cater for the demand along the Stillorgan corridor. We can certainly go back and look at the modelling that was done in the lead-up to the strategy and the optioneering that would be done. If we were now to do some modelling on a different proposal, that would involve a significant amount of work.