Mr. Hugh Creegan:

The DART+ to Maynooth has got approval from An Bord Pleanála, or the two judicial reviews, which I hope will get resolved soon. Therefore, it is available for construction, so we need to wait and see what comes out of the national development plan to see that the funding is. I assume that the funding will be there to start it but we just have to wait and see the outcome. That scheme was intended to go only as far as Maynooth and then it went a little further to accommodate a depot west of Maynooth. An Bord Pleanála did not approve the depot part of the project, so Irish Rail has to reapply for a new depot site. We are committed - it is in our transport strategy - to extending the DART out to Kilcock. There is an option selection stage going on for the new depot at the moment. We want to see what the outcome of that is because that will decide how easy or hard it is to extend as far as Kilcock.