Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)

I want to come back to the question of those longer-term Luas programmes. In the Luas 2050 vision document, there are two touching on my constituency, namely, an extension of the green line to Tyrrelstown and a full-on Luas going up the Navan Road to Blanchardstown. It was indicated as being post 2042, which is a long way away. Recognising it is going to take a while for the Poolbeg and Lucan lines to be developed, will there be feasibility studies happening in the early to mid-2030s to move those on? I refer in particular to the Tyrrelstown line as that is indicatively routed through the Abbotstown lands, which is the big bank of land Fingal has that it is looking to open up for a major housing development. What are those steps that can be taken now or in the reasonably near future to make sure we do not have this big gap and as others have said, that the expertise that is developed in terms of the delivery is kept? One of the things they have learned from Spain and other countries is that they get a team and people who know how to deliver large-scale public transport and just go straight into the next one rather than letting that expertise be lost. This is specific though to the Tyrrelstown and Blanchardstown Luas proposals.