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. Feljin Jose:

The DART+ tunnel, for example, was supposed to have been constructed before 2035, but now it is due to have been designed by 2042. If we are kicking projects that are 15 years away down the line now, it is not going to happen. We need to build up the pipeline and to start designing projects now to be constructed in the 2030s, when it looks as though, in the second half of the decade at least, it will be a fairly quiet time, according to the strategy. I agree it is not good if strategies are announced and then not delivered on, but it looks as though we are taking away some projects that could have been delivered, or could have been designed now to be delivered, at a later stage, which is not helpful either.

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