Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

As I said to the Deputy, no such decisions have been taken. Transport 21 remains the framework for what we want to achieve. I have made it clear here and outside this House that I intend to bring every project I can right through to the stage where they go to tender and money is required. At that stage the final decisions will be made on what projects go ahead based on an economic appraisal of them. The public transport projects in planning, and which will be in planning over the next 12 months, include Metro north, Navan phase two, DART underground, the Maynooth line development, which is a series of resignalling and removal of level crossing, the RTPI, rail traffic passenger information, in Dublin, the Luas line BXD and metro west. The feasibility studies for the various transport studies in the provincial cities and towns will go ahead. GDA traffic management projects are going ahead. We are talking about providing two additional green routes in Cork, two green routes plus phase one of a third in Limerick city and county, one bus lane in Limerick city and two sectors of the bus lane in Galway city, and northern and southern bus lanes in Claregalway are already completed.

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