Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion

Mr. Hugh Creegan:

We are now at the stage of submitting proposals to An Bord Pleanála. That will trigger a statutory consultation process and a full review by An Bord Pleanála. The first corridor, on the northside, was submitted last month. The next one, which is on the southside but not one referred to by the Senator, will go in this week. We are on a timeline for all the rest to be submitted over the coming months. Each of those has its own comprehensive traffic assessment as part of the environmental impact assessment report.

That is made fully public and I have no doubt but there will be lots of debate on it. That is the process we have been following for a long time. We assemble the final design, we do the final set of modelling on the final design, we put that into an environmental impact assessment, EIA, report, it goes for statutory public consultation and then review by-----

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