Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy is incorrect to say we are foisting cheap options on Ballymun while doing otherwise elsewhere. The metro can and should be built. We have agreed the route selection and that it should go through Ballymun. The only issue raised with me at the outset was the proposal for the line to run on stilts. That was unacceptable to people in Ballymun so it was reviewed and abandoned in favour of the streetscape design, of which I thought everybody was in favour.

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