Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As is the case with every major capital project, we have made no commitments for 2017, 2018 or 2019 or beyond. This is true in the case of the DART underground, the metro north, the bus rapid transit project and just about every other road project around the country. The only commitments we have made are up to 2016, except where a contract has already been signed or in the case of an advanced project. The project in question here is a proposed project and does not even have planning permission. We do not know what the project will look like when it finally gets permission. For any project like this, in any part of the island, we have not yet made commitments for 2017 or 2018. We will do that as part of the preparation of a new national development plan to replace the existing plan, which expires in 2016, and we will need to start work on that quite soon.

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