Mr. Hugh Creegan:

We had a lot of engagement with Dublin Port before it submitted an application to ensure the bridge was capable of facilitating a Luas crossing. It is and if that scheme proceeds, that is a possibility. We agree entirely with the Deputy about having a pipeline of projects available. Ireland Inc. could not afford a pipeline a number of years ago. We have had to spend a number of years catching up. We now have 12 BusConnects corridors, all of them An Bord Pleanála-approved. Some will have to go through the courts but they have all been approved. There are two DART projects and various others. We need to be in a place where we have a pipeline of projects ready to go. Luas Finglas is now with An Bord Pleanála. That will be the next big project to go. Luas Lucan, which we mentioned earlier, is at an early stage of design. We can pick up Luas Poolbeg too and what goes on at it. It is at analysis at the moment. On the Ringsend area, it is worth knowing that one of the BusConnects schemes is from Ringsend to the city centre, with a bridge across the River Dodder at Sir John Rogerson's Quay to allow a continuous priority bus corridor from that area to the city centre. I am not saying that takes away from the Luas but that is also in the system.