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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)
Eamon Ryan: There has been 30 years of work on this issue so it was not just by press release that they were trying to make the case. The fundamental case is that the plan can and should change, and it already has changed. It included in its original form a DART interconnector which has since been removed by the Government as an aspiration or put off into never-never land. As a result, the MetroLink...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: ...to how it is to be paid for. While I am open to correction, it seems the Deputy has two principal suggestions, first, that there would be an extension of Metro North from Charlemont to Knocklyon, and the second involves the red Luas line from Tallaght to Booterstown. I do not have a clue what that would cost, nor has the Deputy. To make a suggestion of that sort, which would cost...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: ..., but when they are considered they will have to be carefully costed. The Deputy hopes what has happened with the national children's hospital will not stop us from embarking on big projects, and it will not, but it will certainly make us more careful. It will also put a burden on the Opposition to not just throw out castles in the air like this but to acknowledge that such suggestions...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: The Deputy mentioned he is hoping to take the metro through Rathfarnham and Terenure. A very detailed analysis was conducted in the transport strategy. It concluded that the actual and forecasted demand along the Rathfarnham-Terenure corridor does not meet the threshold of a metro-style service. That is the only scientific evidence which has been produced. Whatever the cost, and the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)
Eamon Ryan: ..., South Dublin County Council approved a motion, advanced by my colleague, Councillor Francis Noel Duffy, that rather than stopping at Charlemont, Ranelagh or Beechwood, as I believe the Minister and the Department may be considering, that we would continue the metro south west, through my preferred route of Harold's Cross, Terenure, Knocklyon, Firhouse and Tallaght. Thinking really big -...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (13 Feb 2019)
Shane Ross: ...that we do not seem to be learning from the lessons of the past. By that I mean - I believe the Deputy would agree with me - that we need to move away from transport projects by press release and instead move towards a planned and integrated development of public transport and land use strategies. That is why the Oireachtas voted to create the NTA in 2008. Importantly, and I know the...