The reason the NTA wants to reroute that is so as not to duplicate the Luas. It wants to move the D3 onto the New Nangor Road and I accept the logic of that. However, it can achieve that by running the D3 up the Monastery Road, down Woodford Hill and onto the New Nangor Road. The NTA would maintain the integrity of the change it wishes to make but would capture 2,000 houses that have a high frequency of bus usage at present, which they will not get under the current plan. In addition, there is no connecting bus service into the train station in Clondalkin. There is no immediate residential development around it, but that will change not only for Clondalkin but also for Kishoge railway station in Adamstown as part of the 11,000 new houses in the Clonburris strategic development zone. Given that many of those houses will be built by the time the NTA implements this plan in the new timescale, the NTA must revisit that to assess how to connect people from the surrounding residential areas to the two key transport hubs of Clondalkin and Kishoge railway stations.

The other issue, and Mr. Creegan knows about this because I have pressed him about it regularly, is that there is a problem with the frequency of the main Lucan and Clondalkin peak time services, the 25 and 13 routes. That will continue to grow both for the existing population and additional growth in other residential developments. What reassurance can the NTA give that it is building into this plan sufficient additional capacity for the growing demand that will exist by the time the plan is implemented?