Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

Dublin City Council has made some decisions in recent days on that matter, which are to be welcomed. Obviously we will do all we can to facilitate those projects proceeding as quickly as possible, despite the setbacks that have occurred.

In response to Deputy Gilmore, the Cabinet sub-committee on infrastructure will continue to meet and a meeting is fixed for later this week. It is continuing to review the annual report of the NDP, published recently, which confirms that a lot of the work as envisaged is taking place. A lot of major work is being conducted. On the previous project about which the Deputy asked, I answered his question. He suggested that a decision had been made or rather he seemed to suggest that he had knowledge of a decision made to cancel metro north and I clarified that that was not a correct perception.

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