Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 402: To ask the Minister for Transport if his announcement that the number of park and ride facilities in Dublin excludes the possibility of developing such facilities in Kildare, Meath and Wicklow; his plans to develop such facilities in Kildare, Meath and Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34094/05]

Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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It is a key aim of the Department of Transport to develop an integrated transport system which will attract more people onto public transport, and park and ride facilities will play an important role in achieving this. In this context, I received this summer a strategy produced by the Dublin Transportation Office for the development of rail park and ride facilities in the greater Dublin area, including counties Kildare, Meath and Wicklow. This plan envisages a network of existing and proposed future park and ride sites, and I am happy to be able to tell the Deputy that among the proposals are new sites in each of counties Kildare, Meath and Wicklow. It is now a matter for the relevant agencies to prepare and submit business cases for the development of specific sites which will be considered on their merits. I accepted the DTO strategy document and stipulated my policy for park and ride is both rail-based and bus-based.