Ms Anne Graham:

The tunnel was part of the DART expansion project. It was originally designed as a new tunnel to go from Inchicore to the Docklands Station. In looking at how one would invest in heavy rail infrastructure, we felt it was more important to get capacity in first through the provision of additional rail fleet, then to allow for the electrification and follow-up with the tunnel, if it was still deemed to be required later on in the project.