Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport

National Roads, Light Rail and Metro: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Lorcan O'Connor:

There are a few questions there for the NTA and some for Dr. Sweeney. I might take the two easy ones. The current works on the N3 are bus-focused rather than additional car lanes. Again, that speaks to ensuring we can efficiently move large numbers of people, given the constraints we have.

On the interchange in Glasnevin, we have a memorandum of understanding with Iarnród Éireann that is very much designed to ensure we deliver the best project possible with the minimal disruption. It is inevitably that there will be disruption. It will take further time in terms of the design work to understand exactly what that will amount to. For those living on the Maynooth line, there will ultimately be the interchange to the Luas and the interchange to the metro. They can continue on the train to the city centre as well. They will enjoy a significantly enhanced offering once they have gone through that disruption.

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