Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

That will take place at the final stage and the overall cost will be published. A number of assessments have been done on the rate of return from metro north and all proved positive. Either the current Oireachtas joint committee or the previous one carried out an appraisal of the cost-benefit analysis and professed itself satisfied with the good rate of return and recommended that the project go to the next stage. If it represents good value for money it will go ahead.

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