Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

Transport 21 provides a very large funding commitment for the delivery of an extensive rail-based public transport network in the greater Dublin area in the period up to 2015. This network is based on the Dublin Transportation Office strategy, A Platform for Change.

It also includes funding for feasibility studies on those elements of A Platform for Change which are not included in Transport 21 and this includes the proposed Luas line from the city centre to Dundrum via Rathfarnham and Terenure. In this connection I announced on 30 January last that the RPA is to commence work on the Rathfarnham feasibility study in April.

It is understood from the RPA that the feasibility study will take a number of months to complete. Pending completion of the study it would be premature to speculate on a feasible construction timetable for the project. There are a number of other projects in Dublin, including two in particular, with ongoing feasibility studies.

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