Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I look forward to that day. The Taoiseach has ruled out that route alignment and has said explicitly that he sees sense in the UCD-Sandyford route, which I also see sense in. What I am saying is that rather than just leaving this process to continue, intervention from the Government is required if it believes that provides real benefits. It needs to consider what it must to do to assist the NTA to be able to look at that option so that rather than it being a two-phase process, when that tunnelling machine comes through and finally comes to rest in Ranelagh, as is currently proposed, it does not stop there but continues straight on towards Donnybrook, UCD, Stillorgan and Sandyford. In that way, it would bring a number of transport benefits, including the fact that we would be able to cope with the long-term growth on the green line. Does the Government have no responsibility to help progress that? I believe it does. It needs to work with the NTA or indeed other parties here if it believes it has sense and give the NTA the direction to do the modelling and assessment of that route option so it can be done in a timely manner.

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