Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 May 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

When we get the strategy, we might go back to the NTA. The paragraph in regard to the updated greater Dublin area transport strategy 2022 to 2035 is due to be provided shortly. What it refers to is some extensions to the DART+ programme, both of which are in my constituency, one to Kilcock and the other on the Kildare line to Sallins. Those will be at minimal cost. In fact, for DART+, the railway order is to Kilcock and it is just 350 m away from the train station in Kilcock, yet it will not be stopping there. It goes there but people will not be able to get on, so there is a kind of daftness to some of this. There is not a large amount of cost involved in this. We might pursue that after we have been provided with that strategy.

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