Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy is correct that the public transport corridors should be fitted to the higher density housing development. The DTO did good work on this. One of the graphics outlined where people work while another outlined the routes they travel to work by car, which are mostly similar, and another showed the bus routes available. This graphic highlighted huge swathes of the GDA that are without a bus service but large numbers of people are moving into these areas and that is part of the difficulty.

The Deputy's general point about concentrating development and using public transport is absolutely correct. It is essential that happens and it can be done under the DTA legislation because all the local authorities in the GDA must tie their development plans to their transport plans.

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