Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am very happy to express my own views to the National Transport Authority, NTA, and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, about Government policy. I have noticed that all the Deputies here, quite understandably, have been representing their own constituencies in this area and that is absolutely fine. I must, however, look at it on an overall basis. I will not comment on any particular alignments that are being planned at the moment. I can tell the Deputies opposite that after a very thorough examination and analysis of the route the NTA found that there was not the population to merit the Terenure-Rathfarham link. That is the finding they made and that is the story.

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