Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that but that is why the documents that form the basis for the opinions that are formed are out of date, especially considering that a new draft plan for County Meath will be published which will set out those statistics. If Mr. Creegan were to come to Meath and take the journey with me, he would see the congestion which starts inside the Meath boundary before getting inside the Dublin boundary. The M3, which was the largest road construction project of the past decade, is effectively redundant as a transport solution because it is so congested. I have raised this with the Taoiseach because he lives in Blanchardstown in the neighbouring constituency. The M3 does not have the capacity to take the traffic.

One of the issues rightly raised at the time of the report was that the M3 parkway was underutilised but that was at a time of huge recession. That capacity is being utilised for that. We need a commitment to make the rail project to Navan happen. I have met Jim Meade, the chief executive officer, CEO, of Irish Rail. He is not just the CEO; he is passionate about rail transport. He said of this project that he was in the business of building rail lines. I share his passion and I want to know if the NTA would work with us to see this project for Navan rail come to fruition rather than just have a reappraisal. That is why I am seeking a meeting. The basis for the meeting would be that the reappraisal would happen sooner than 2021 on the basis that I do not want to see out of date documents condemning commuters to a life of misery, as has been indicated by the results of the analysis produced this week.