Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

As the Deputy indicated, it is one that can be considered in the context of 2013. The TEN-T funding is not solely for projects across international boundaries or cross-Border in the Irish context. The goal is the better use of existing networks and the completion of missing links, both of which apply to the DART underground project, as do other goals such as crossing natural barriers, for example, the Liffey in the case of the DART underground. I accept the Deputy's point, but in the context that the decision was taken, that it was not part of the Transport 21 proposals at that time, it could not be submitted for funding, but it is open again to people to make a case for that for 2013.

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