Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 13: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost benefit analysis he has completed in respect of individual projects mentioned in Transport 21. [35970/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The projects within Transport 21 will be subject to: normal statutory procedures where required; capital appraisal in line with the Department of Finance guidelines; and the value for money initiatives set out in the Minister for Finance's speech of 20 October last. Some elements of the overall investment programme, including metro north and the rail investment programme for the greater Dublin area, have had business cases prepared for them by their promoting agencies. These business cases included an economic evaluation.

Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 14: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason the metro line proposed to run from Tallaght via Terenure and Kimmage to the city centre has been dropped under the Transport 21 strategy. [36015/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Plans for a metro line from Tallaght via Kimmage to the city centre have not been dropped. Transport 21 provides for feasibility studies for this and other projects, including the proposed Luas line from the city centre to Dundrum via Terenure, over the course of the programme. While Transport 21 involves a very large commitment of financial resources, those resources are also finite. It has, therefore, been necessary to prioritise the investments to be made over the ten-year period. Tallaght is served at present by the Luas red line. The other areas mentioned by the Deputy are currently served by two QBCs, Rathfarnham and Tallaght, and a significant number of bus services.

Transport 21 includes a substantial financial provision for the development of bus services and for the doubling of the quality bus network over the period of the programme.