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 the strategy which are not included in Transport 21, such as the proposed Luas line from the city centre to Dundrum via Rathfarnham and Terenure. On 30 January 2007, I announced that the RPA is to begin work on the Rathfarnham feasibility study in April.

As I live in Rathfarnham, I recently received Deputy Ryan's brochure in my door. I was astonished to see the lack of integrity in it. He suggested that I put out the feasibility study in response to his comments. However, my speech to launch Transport 21 included mention of the feasibility study, which was initiated more than two years before Deputy Eamon Ryan thought of it. I was surprised to discover what the Deputy included in the document he recently circulated to constituents in Rathfarnham. I live there during the week but my vote remains in my own constituency.

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