Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It has been reported in the media that there are potential delays to both the MetroLink and the DART+ schemes. There is not a lot of clarity around this but there is an awful lot of concern because these two projects are major infrastructure projects that have been promised by successive Governments over very many years. Can the Minister tell me, in regard to the new national development plan, NDP, that he will be bringing forward in the next number of weeks, what is the start and end date of both of those projects under that plan? Have changes been made to those completion dates as per the current NDP and are any delays foreseen for those projects?

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