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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I welcome that notice and I will follow up to see the specifics.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: On the Narrow Water Bridge, this project will be led by the Department of the Taoiseach within the shared island initiative. The Deputy will see that there was draft funding within that. It is not within my Department's Estimate. My view is that the real potential development here, on both the Cooley Peninsula and on the Mournes on the other side, is particularly the development of cycling...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: No problem at all. I know what it is like.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It is tricky to speak in advance of the NDP being published on Monday. There still are ongoing negotiations regarding the final arrangements in that. However, the broad agreement I have had with the Ministers, Deputies Michael McGrath and Donohoe, the party leaders and Cabinet and Government in general is that we seek to deliver all the major public transport projects that are in planning...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I will add to that, because it is best to be honest with people. There is also then a tendering process and that takes time. Within that, depending on the structure used, the overall budget allocation has to work. Some projects will be over two decades and that helps in managing the budget. Some projects, and the metro may be an example, can involve a PPP element whereby some of the cost...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It is similar analysis. I have always felt that the option of a spur from the heavy rail line along the east coast was not the optimal option because it would restrict capacity on that line. That would restrict commuter traffic from Drogheda, Balbriggan and so on. There are alternative options. The Finglas Luas could be extended to the airport. Rather than building a tunnelled solution,...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: We are not but one looks at it all when making a public procurement decision. The following is a rough, broad and outline analysis. A light rail option might accommodate 10,000 passengers per hour at full capacity with trams running every 90 seconds and so on. The difference with the metro option is that it is a continuous, segregated, driverless system, which could accommodate 20,000...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It is. It is a broad strategic approach which informs our policy.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: This project is probably further advanced. The use of NIFTI is more often at the strategic assessment phase. I do not see a significant change. We are at a more advanced stage. We have been looking at this for 25 years, as I said.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: There should, and will, be a certain assessment. It is the right project and I have always said that. However, there will be questions asked in times of limited resources. A metro will, in all likelihood, be very expensive. The people of Limerick might ask how this will be balanced. That will be one of the challenges. However, my sense is that the political system has come around to the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I am due to be in Clondalkin at 4.30 p.m. or 4.45 p.m.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I should be able to do that.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: This is where NIFTI comes in. NIFTI is concerned with recognising, minimising and reducing demanded travel, putting active travel first, and using existing resources first and it is central. I agree with the Deputy that we need to rethink and move away from a car dominated system we built over 50 years. It will be difficult to do but that is exactly what NIFTI is concerned with.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, they do. On a general point, Danny McCoy, the head of IBEC, made a speech a year and a half ago, which was seminal, but perhaps not noticed so much because it was given just before the election. He said, while our State has grown dramatically and has been hugely successful in employment and economic development, one of our difficulties of that was that the size of our State has not...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Sitting comfortably in Lesson Lane.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I must come back to the Chair on that. My understanding is that it went to Cabinet earlier in the year, but I will have to check that.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: It is due to be brought to Cabinet before the end of the year.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Yes, the Department must assess all projects on an ongoing basis.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Yes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: NIFTI is concerned with - as Deputy O'Rourke said, and I keep coming back to this point - the national planning framework. NIFTI complements that and is a perspective of what we want to do: balanced regional development; compact development; and low-carbon development. NIFTI is a continuation of that approach and it is connected to our climate plans, and regional and rural development...