Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport
National Roads, Light Rail and Metro: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Geraldine Fitzpatrick:
There is no short answer to that. The way it is prioritised at the moment is by what is identified in the national development plan.
Feeding into that, however, a lot of the main links now are either there or at construction. There is an emphasis on the connections to the west and to the north because they are the sections of the network that have not been addressed and that are not done. The programme will move to start to address those connections outside of the main corridors. Again, it is a matter of what is listed in the NDP and the level of funding we get. It does take quite a long time to bring these projects through from the start to achieving planning permission. It can take up to 20 years from start to having them completed on the ground because of-----
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